I got a Mac mini last summer and installed Homebrew, Rails, MySQL 5.1.49, and a few other tools. I then got really busy and never got back to it (I'm reasonably productive on Ubuntu).
Now I want to get back to the Mac. I updated OS X, which I think was what brought that to 10.6.8. But trying mysql -u root -p gives ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2) mysql is not running (nothing from 'ps aux'), but I am unable to start it: $ mysql.server start Starting MySQL . ERROR! Manager of pid-file quit without updating file. and nothing I can find online helps, though I get hints that the upgrade to 10.6.8 may be at fault. I can't find a my.cnf file anywhere. Perhaps I need to reinstall MySQL 5.1 with homebrew, though I'm not sure how to do that. Thanks for any help you can give me. Scott -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby
