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 have a description of the error.


Try to check that:
- mysql user have access/read/write privileges in /tmp directory.
- /usr/local/mysql/data and all files inside it owner/group is  mysql/mysql
- There are hosts and mysql tables in data directory.

Santino

At 16:45 -0600 8-03-2005, Jeff Justice wrote:
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 sure there is no process running, which near as I can tell, it's not).

Isn't there also a startup item?  Where are it's pieces/parts?

Does one de-install the pref pane by simply control-clicking and selecting "Remove MySQL Preference Pane"?

I can't get this thing back to running like when I first installed it. Something is still goofy.

Jeff J.


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