MySQL not staying running

Hello All,

I am getting this error on my Linode site:

Warning: mysqlconnect(): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (111) in /var/www/wls.wels.net/publichtml/wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 1568

When I restart the service I get:

root@www:~# service mysql restart

[ ok ] Stopping MySQL database server: mysqld.

[ ok ] Starting MySQL database server: mysqld ..

[info] Checking for tables which need an upgrade, are corrupt or were

not closed cleanly..

Then the services stop in about 15-30 seconds.

I have looked online at other procedures to fix and nothing works.

Any help would be appreciated.

Jeff