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

I spent whole day trying to resolve this issue. Changing the port no from 3306 to 3307 worked for me. Simply open the configure module and change the port number. Hope it works for you.

Answer 2

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