I have been trying repeatedly and in vain to install the community edition of
MySQL 5.7.16 on an iMac running OS sierra. I religiously followed the
instructions for uninstalling previous versions found at
http://community.jaspersoft.com/wiki/uninstall-mysql-mac-os-x, and installation
progresse
On 12/2/2016 16:59, Martin Mueller wrote:
I have been trying repeatedly and in vain to install the community edition of
MySQL 5.7.16 on an iMac running OS sierra. I religiously followed the
instructions for uninstalling previous versions found at
http://community.jaspersoft.com/wiki/uninstall
Alas, running the stop and start commands under sudo makes zero difference.
This is a very frustrating problem, and I hope somebody in the MySQl
documentation department will take a look at it. It’s cleary a problem that
has been around for years because the Web is full of complaints and tips.
2016/12/02 18:58 ... Martin Mueller:
Alas, running the stop and start commands under sudo makes zero difference.
This is a very frustrating problem, and I hope somebody in the MySQl
documentation department will take a look at it. It’s cleary a problem that
has been around for years because t
On 12/2/2016 17:58, Martin Mueller wrote:
Alas, running the stop and start commands under sudo makes zero difference.
?! The cited page recommends more than sudo starts and stops, eg ...
|unset TMPDIR mysql_install_db |
Did you try that? Did you check the pid setting in my.cnf, eg
pid-file=/
On 12/3/2016 13:58, Martin Mueller wrote:
I was able to install a version of MySQL 5.6 on OS Sierra. It appears that the
“launchdaemon’ method works while the mysql.server start/stop method does not
work. In retrospect I should have seen that, but I also think that the
official documentation
Well, the command
sudo /usr/local/mysql/support-files/mysql.server stop
generates the error message:
ERROR! MySQL server PID file could not be found!
On the other hand,
sudo launchctl unload -F
/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.oracle.oss.mysql.mysqld.plist
stops the server and
sudo /usr/local/