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traceyz
traceyz

Reputation: 21

unable to start mysql after installing with homebrew

I have a Mac Air with OS X 10.6.8 (10K540) and homebrew 0.8. I have installed MySql with brew install mysql. I have followed the instructions given by homebrew, specifically:

unset TMPDIR
mysql_install_db --verbose --user=`whoami` --basedir="$(brew --prefix mysql)" --datadir=/usr/local/var/mysql --tmpdir=/tmp

The problem now is starting the server. Homebrew says start mysqld manually with mysql.server start. When I try that, I get an error:

The server quit without updating PID file (/usr/local/var/mysql/MICHAEL-ZELLMANNs-MacBook-Air.local.pid)

After doing some more research, I tried:

unset TMPDIR
mysql_install_db

But that gave me a FATAL_ERROR.

./bin/my_print_defaults

Some more data:

which mysql yields /usr/local/bin/mysql
mysql --version yields mysql  Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.5.14, for osx10.6 (i386) using  EditLine wrapper

Upvotes: 2

Views: 5779

Answers (2)

Mr. Thompson
Mr. Thompson

Reputation: 76

I know this question was asked a while ago but I had similar issues installing MySQL 5.6.19 via Homebrew on OSX Mavericks (10.9.3).

After several attempts, finally deleting the *.err file at /usr/local/var/mysql and running mysql.server start worked for me.

Upvotes: 2

steve
steve

Reputation: 6020

You need to check the mysql error.log file for error messages.

Upvotes: 0

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