Can't start MySQL on Mac OS X

[Todd O'Bryan]

Something bad has happened. MySQL was up and running on my machine, but 
now it's not and I have a chicken and egg problem that I can't seem to 
solve...

I uninstalled any old versions of MySQL and I'm using the package 
installer of version 4.0.13 on Mac OS 10.2.6.

When I "cd /usr/local/" and "sudo ./bin/mysqld_safe" I get the 
following:

Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /usr/local/mysql/data
030702 08:43:04  mysqld ended
So, I check the log and here's what it says:

030702 08:43:04  mysqld started
030702  8:43:04  Can't start server : Bind on unix socket: Permission 
denied
030702  8:43:04  Do you already have another mysqld server running on 
socket: /tmp/mysql.sock ?
030702  8:43:04  Aborting

030702  8:43:04  /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld: Shutdown Complete

030702 08:43:04  mysqld ended

But, I'm pretty sure nothing's running because /tmp/mysql.sock doesn't 
exist and when I run mysql I get:

ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket 
'/tmp/mysql.sock' (2)

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Todd
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