Symfony3 - SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] No such file or directory
<p>I am new to Symfony and started doing some tutorials in order to get some things done. I am working on a Linux Mint 18 machine and a standard Symfony3-project.</p>

<p>I'd like to create a simple database to play around with it, but I am encountering an error I can't find the right solution for.</p>

<p>My parameters.yml file looks like this:</p>

<pre><code>parameters:
   database_host: localhost
   database_port: null
   database_name: symfony
   database_user: root
   database_password: null
   mailer_transport: smtp
   mailer_host: 127.0.0.1
   mailer_user: null
   mailer_password: null
   secret: (not relevant)
</code></pre>

<p>My Genus.php file looks like this:</p>

<pre><code>namespace AppBundle\Genus;

use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;

/**
 * @ORM\Entity
 * @ORM\Table(name="genus")
 */
class Genus
{
    /**
     * @ORM\Id
     * @ORM\GeneratedValue(strategy="AUTO")
     * @ORM\Column(type="integer")
     */
    private $id;
    /**
     * @ORM\Column(type="string")
     */
    private $name;

}
</code></pre>

<p>When I execute the command <strong>dpkg -l php*mysql</strong> I get the following result:</p>

<pre><code>dpkg -l php*mysql
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name              Version       Architecture  Description
+++-=================-=============-=============-============================
un  php-pdo-mysql     &lt;none&gt;        &lt;none&gt;        (no description available)
ii  php7.0-mysql      7.0.8-0ubuntu amd64         MySQL module for PHP
un  php7.0-pdo-mysql  &lt;none&gt;        &lt;none&gt;        (no description available)
</code></pre>

<p>When I try to create a local database using the command prompt using</p>

<pre><code>XXX@XXX-pc ~/PhpstormProjects/test_symfony $ php bin/console doctrine:database:create
</code></pre>

<p>This is what I get: </p>

<blockquote>
  <p>[Doctrine\DBAL\Exception\ConnectionException]<br>
  An exception occured in driver: SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] No such file or
  directory<br>
                                                                                                                                        [Doctrine\DBAL\Driver\PDOException]                  SQLSTATE[HY000]
  [2002] No such file or directory<br>
                                                    [PDOException]                                       SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] No such file or directory</p>
</blockquote>

<p>I've came across many other topics but wasn't able to find the right answer. Could anyone tell me what I am missing here? Any help is much appreciated :)</p>