title: error: 'Access denied for user 'debian-sys-maint'@'localhost' (using password: YES)'
body: <p>Longtime reader of Stackoverflow, first time submitting a question.</p>
  
  <p>I had to hardware-reboot my dev laptop a few nights ago for various reasons. When i brought it back up i realized that mysqld were no longer accessible. I usually connect with root on a local dev machine. I could not start/stop it through the init-scripts as usual either and so I turned to various search engines as always. After consulting Google, Bing and Duckduckgo.com I still could not find a solution on the problem. I found solutions to similar problems but all involved changing the auto-generated password for debian-sys-maint and login as root to set a new one but since I cannot login as root either this does not solve my problem.</p>
  
  <p>Does anyone know of any other solution-candidates for this dilemma?</p>
  
  <p>error: 'Access denied for user 'debian-sys-maint'@'localhost' (using password: YES)' .</p>