MySQL Database cannot start on XAMPP for Mac

Question

All of a sudden I am encountering this problem on my mac. I cant start my MySQL Database. I can only start my ProFTPD and Apache Web Server.

This is the application log:

Answer 1

For me, Xampp Control panel was not launching, and in Stackoverflow some where it was mentioned to add Read / Write for every one on every file of xampp, when I did that. It allowed me to launch xampp control panel but mysql was not starting.

Later I debuged and found that /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/etc/my.cnf should not be writeable by everyone, mysql will ignore my.cnf if it is for everyone. I changed the permission to read only for this file, and able to start mysql server