[malinghi]

I just discovered that my forum is having this problem. I checked my e-mail this evening and discovered that I had hundreds of e-mails alerting me that the website had been having theses once or twice a minute since yesterday. The error message is similar to what smooth-c encountered:

Database error in vBulletin :

mysql_connect() [<a href='function.mysql-connect'>function.mysql-connect</a>]: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)
/home/mernet/public_html/index/includes/class_core.php on line 314

MySQL Error   :
Error Number  :
Request Date  : Tuesday, October 11th 2011 @ 08:35:34 PM
Error Date    : Tuesday, October 11th 2011 @ 08:35:34 PM
Script        : http://mernetwork.com/index/attachment.php?attachmentid=1088&thumb=1&d=1314293731
Referrer      : http://mernetwork.com/index/content.php
IP Address    : 24.98.203.185
Username      :
Classname     : vB_Database
MySQL Version :

I found this page :https://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/cantconnect

And it basically said that if there wasn't something wrong with the config.php file, then I had to have my server fix it. But I was just using the chat support feature with my host, Arvixe, and two different support guys I spoke to said that there was nothing wrong with the servers and that it was an application proble,