trying to debug why I get this failure:

$ mysql -u root -e 'GRANT ALL ON rounduptest.* TO rounduptest@localhost IDENTIFIED BY "rounduptest";'
ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)
The command "mysql -u root -e 'GRANT ALL ON rounduptest.* TO rounduptest@localhost IDENTIFIED BY "rounduptest";'" failed and exited with 1 during .

Author: rouilj

.travis.yml

@@ -43,6 +43,9 @@ install:
 
 before_script:
   # set up mysql database
+  - ls -l /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
+  - sudo service mysql restart
+  - sleep 60
   - mysql -u root -e 'GRANT ALL ON rounduptest.* TO rounduptest@localhost IDENTIFIED BY "rounduptest";'
 
   # set up postgresql database