Question

When I try to start MySQL from the PrefPane, it asks me for my password and then it keeps saying MySQL Server has stopped in red.

It doesn’t start.

$ mysqladmin start
mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2)'
Check that mysqld is running and that the socket: '/tmp/mysql.sock' exists!
$ mysql start
ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2)

When I search processes for mysql, this is what I see:

$ ps wwaux | grep mysqld | grep -v grep
_mysql           203   0.0  0.5  2518204  19288   ??  S     3:30PM   0:23.25 /opt/local/libexec/mysqld --basedir=/opt/local --datadir=/opt/local/var/db/mysql5 --user=_mysql --log-error=/opt/local/var/db/mysql5/localhost.err --pid-file=/opt/local/var/db/mysql5/localhost.pid --socket=/tmp/mysql.sock --port=3306
root              75   0.0  0.0  2435492    884   ??  S     3:30PM   0:00.04 /bin/sh /opt/local/lib/mysql5/bin/mysqld_safe --datadir=/opt/local/var/db/mysql5 --pid-file=/opt/local/var/db/mysql5/localhost.pid

Thoughts?

Answer 1

Turns out, that a mysqld process was running and got stalled. So I just went into Activity Monitor and killed it, and restarted it.

It now works.