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Topic : mysql fails to start

Posted By: ant0n on June 28, 2015, 1:10 am

Spooky. Everything was AOK last night. First use today = mysql fails to start

Ampps 2.9 on OS X 10.10.3

Any help is appreciated.

mysql.err
http://pastebin.com/Wpu5HEUQ

Posted By: ant0n on June 29, 2015, 5:36 am | Post: 1

Solved.

It seems that the symptom of not being able to start is because a "mysql zombie" was already running. So the problem is really to stop the mysql zombie, then restart everything.

Very similar symptoms: Can't Restart Mysqld, some help from How to stop mysqld.

This may help others with the same problem that are running AMPPS on OS X.

From the terminal:

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sudo /Applications/AMPPS/mysql/bin/mysqladmin -u root shutdown -p password

The default password is

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mysql

.

Followed by the removal of mysql.err and mysql.pid
from /Applications/AMPPS/var.

Just for fun, Apache would also not stop, so:

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sudo killall httpd

from this post.

Restart both.