Are you running server or client?
Up until this week I've always run MySQL on OS X client, since there
really isn't much of a difference between OS X client and server as far
as MySQL is concerned. I just ran into the problem where I locked
myself out, but I couldn't start MySQL from the command
Hi,
You have to know why MySql doesn't start.
When you install mysql, the installer creates a directory
"mysql-[version name]" and a symbolic link "mysql" in /usr/local.
There is an error file named "yourservername".err in data directory
that explains why mysql failed.
Type perror errornumber to
Okay, here's a brief synopsis, with suggestions made and tried:
Cannot get MySQL to launch. A process is never started in the activity
monitor. What exactly is the name of the process I should see?
Tried uninstalling MySQL by deleting the MySQL directories in
/usr/local/. (after first making
If you want to start from scratch, kill the mysql process and delete
the mysql directories in /usr/local/
On Mar 8, 2005, at 2:47 PM, Jeff Justice wrote:
So, I installed MySQL. Accidentally locked myself out of the database
trying to make it secure. Tried to re-install MySQL, now every time I
t
You need to kill the mysql process, then you can startup MySQL from the
command line with the --skip-grant-tables option. MySQL will then load
without checking for any passwords, it will be completely open. You can
then "log" in as a guest and change the root password.
>sudo /usr/local/mysql/bi
So, I installed MySQL. Accidentally locked myself out of the database
trying to make it secure. Tried to re-install MySQL, now every time I
tell it to "Start MySQL Server" through the control panel, it asks for
authentication, then immediately goes back to "stopped". It won't
launch.
Is there
Not being able to solve my prior problem (Error 2002)
I went ahead and removed mysql and reinstalled it. I'm
running OpenBSD 3.2
Here is how it went:
point# pkg_add mysql-server-3.23.49.tgz
===> Creating mysql group for MySQL
===> Creating mysql user for MySQL
useradd: Warning: home directory `/
A problem on installation of 4.0.3.
First, I tried with rpm -U and when I try to uninstall it says not installed
when I try to install or upgrade it says already installed
I looked at the rpm package files and try to erase them manually
and they are not there
So I tried the tarball
I'm having a devil of a time installing mysql 3.23.51 on SuSE 8 from the
source
tarball. I did ./config, then make.
There are the last few lines from make:
libmysql.c: In function `mysql_real_connect':
libmysql.c:1325: warning: passing arg 5 of `gethostbyname_r' from
incompatible pointer type
