Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (111) Problem

Hi!
I'm really desperated with this problem, please someone help me, is very URGENT!!!


I have mysql installed over linux box. I  have phpmyadmin 2.6 installed on it.  I changed the pwd of root user, but I didn't know that account was related to a VERY IMPORTANT application. I tried to change the pwd in the application, but it told me: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES)  .

Then I tried changing the pwd back, shutting down the mysqld service and restarting it with --skip-grant-tables and after that I created a file with the following text:
SET PASSWORD FOR 'root'@'localhost' = PASSWORD('mypwd'). I named the file mysql-init and then run:
mysqld_safe --init-file=~/mysql-init &

It seemed to work fine, it displayed:
[root@declaranet bin]#  mysqld_safe --init-file=~/mysql-init &
[1] 30618
[root@declaranet bin]# Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysqlSTOPPING server from pid file /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid
060428 15:05:46  mysqld ended

but it doesn't return to the prompt, it keeps there after more than 30 minutes.

Then in another terminal I try  mysql -u root but it sends me the error:
ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (111)

I really don't know what to do... It's VERY IMPORTANT and needs to be solved today.

Please, can someone help me???


Any help will be appreciated.