MySQL Compatibility with MacOS Sierra

Question

Does anybody know of any compatibility issues or quirks with MySQL Community Server/Workbench on macOS Sierra? I recently did an installation on a Mac that had never held MySQL

Answer 1

try using 127.0.0.1 as the hostname, instead of localhost.

Answer 2

I had the same problem, but it was fixed after a reboot. Maybe worth trying.

Answer 3

MySQL Workbench 6.3.9 is available now (2/14/17) and appears to fix this problem.

Answer 4

I think I figured it out! It could have something to do with the length of the password. At first I had just set it up with a single-character password for my convenience, but I ran into some issues when trying to connect the Eclipse BIRT reporting software with MySQL. I changed the password to make it longer, and that solved the problem with BIRT, but even better, it seems to have solved the problem with Workbench as well!

Answer 5

I upgraded mine from 6.2.12 to 6.3.7 and that did the trick for me.

I will note that opening a 2nd tab for the same instance did work, but I found that I could never close the first and it always hung on any query. And... trying even quit out of the app would require me to force-kill it. Not an acceptable flow in my opinion, so the upgrade was important to me. My guess is that the install correctly set permissions or user groups.

Answer 6

This problem seems to be happening only when using MySQL Workbench. If you use the command line client (/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql), it is possible to get an answer from mysql server.

Try to do it: 1. Execute /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql --user=YOUR_USER --password=YOUR_PASSWORD 2. Type "use sys;" 3. Type "select * from sys_config;"

Now, we have to find out why the Workbench doesn't work.