MYSQL General Error

[no-half-measures]

Ok till about 1 hour ago my forums was working fine, now i recive this error, can anyone tell me how i can solve this issue as ive seen my errors with MySQL and PHPBB but not this one ever ^^

General Error

SQL ERROR [ mysqli ]
Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (111) [2002]
An sql error occurred while fetching this page. Please contact an administrator if this problem persists.

EDIT: well i checked my MYSQL database and guess what... Its Not There! Also there are no MySQL users and best of all i can't even access my phpmyadmin part either to quickly back up my DB

[Zubair]

Ok till about 1 hour ago my forums was working fine, now i recive this error, can anyone tell me how i can solve this issue as ive seen my errors with MySQL and PHPBB but not this one ever ^^

General Error

SQL ERROR [ mysqli ]
Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (111) [2002]
An sql error occurred while fetching this page. Please contact an administrator if this problem persists.

EDIT: well i checked my MYSQL database and guess what... Its Not There! Also there are no MySQL users and best of all i can't even access my phpmyadmin part either to quickly back up my DB

MYSQL server is down at the moment.. Admins are alerted about that. It will resolve soon

[no-half-measures]

Ok thanks for telling me as i probably would have tryed to sort it out and probably brake it in the process ^^. They should probably post this in the News&Announcments section or somthing to stop many other people questioning about the MYSQL issue.

Edit:
Or Not as its back

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