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

In case this may help. I followed all the steps above still nothing worked for me. And I follow this article MySQL database won't start in xampp and it worked. what is says is:

Steps

1. Open terminal and type

   sudo su

   and then put in your password

2. Then type

   ps aux | grep mysql

3. You will need to get the process id of mysql. There should be number near the top, something like 739 or 8827 (in my case I got 74689, just look after mysql or _mysql process id)

4. Kill the process using

   kill -9 {process id}

   this should look something like this: kill -9 739

5. Restart MySQL in manager-osx

If any of the above don’t work, This should work:

sudo /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/bin/mysql.server start