Re: Can't start MySQL on Mac OS X

[gerald_clark]

If you did not shutdown the server prior to the upgrade, you could have 
left mysqld running, even after its socket was removed.
Use ps to see if mysqld is still running, and kill it if necessary.

Todd O'Bryan wrote:

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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