MySQL does not start when upgrading OSX to Yosemite or El Capitan

Question

I know similar questions exist, such as MySQL with MAMP does not work with OSX Yosemite 10.10. However, I do have MAMP, nor XAMPP installed on my computer.

When I tr

Answer 1

I’ve got a similar problem with MySQL on a Mac (Mac Os X Could not startup MySQL Server. Reason: 255 and also “ERROR! The server quit without updating PID file”). After a long trial and error process, finally in order to restore the file permissions, I’ve just do that:

* launch the Disk Utilities.app
* choose my drive on the left panel
* click on the “Repair disk permissions” button

This did the trick for me.

Hoping this can help someone else.

Answer 2

None of the above worked.. but installing a new version of MySQL did the trick.

Answer 3

You just need to create the user mysql (mysql installation script creates _mysql)

sudo vipw

duplicate line that contains _mysql

Change for the duplicated line _mysql to mysql

sudo /usr/local/mysql/support-files/mysql.server start
Starting MySQL
.. SUCCESS!

Answer 4

Same happened to me! So I tried to startup again after I had terminated the running mysql application, and that worked!

Answer 5

You will sometimes miss previous data if you try to install new version.. Please use the following in your terminal and I guarantee that mySql will start running in no time..

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

Remember, it will ask for your Machine password and not mysql password..

Answer 6

Open a terminal:

1. Check MySQL system pref panel, if it says something along the line "Warning, /usr/local/mysql/data is not owned by 'mysql' or '_mysql'

2. If yes, go to the mysql folder cd /usr/local/mysql

3. do a sudo chown -R _mysql data/

4. This will change ownership of the /usr/local/mysql/data and all of its content to own by user '_mysql'

5. Check MySQL system pref panel, it should be saying it's running now, auto-magically. If not start again.

6. Another way to confirm is to do a

   netstat -na | grep 3306

It should say:

tcp46      0      0  *.3306                 *.*                    LISTEN

To see the process owner and process id of the mysqld:

ps aux | grep mysql