

Richard Valk's solution to change value of user to "_mysql" on. The preference pane seems to be not responding or not working when "Start." button is clicked.ġ.


I wasn't able to start mysql service using the pref pane nor manually starting up using `sudo /Library/StartupItems/MySQLCOM/MySQLCOM start` via command line.Ģ. Hope some of you can give me a hint for what I need to do.īuB Javier I downloaded mysql-5.5.8-osx10.6-x86_64.dmg and installed it on my Snow Leopard (10.6.5) 64-bit MBP.ġ. I don´t receive any error message eiter, so I don´t know what´s going wrong. It is a 2.4GHz box with 4GB SDRAM and 320GB HDD. rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 1300 Sep 13 13:42 MySQLCOM Karl-Arne-Gjersyens-MacBook-Pro:mysql karl$ ls -l /Library/StartupItems/MySQLCOM/ Karl-Arne-Gjersyens-MacBook-Pro:mysql karl$ ls -l /Library/StartupItems/ĭrwxr-xr-x 4 root staff 136 Oct 6 10:13 MySQLCOM

Karl-Arne-Gjersyens-MacBook-Pro:mysql karl$ If you get Errcode 13 (which means Permission denied) when starting mysqld, this means that the privileges of the data directory or its contents do not permit server access. rw-r-r- 1 root wheel 9205 Sep 13 12:25 INSTALL-BINARY rw-r-r- 1 root wheel 5139 Sep 13 12:25 EXCEPTIONS-CLIENT Karl-Arne-Gjersyens-MacBook-Pro:mysql karl$ ls -l Karl-Arne-Gjersyens-MacBook-Pro:mysql karl$ pwd Karl-Arne-Gjersyens-MacBook-Pro:~ karl$ cd /usr/local/mysql Karl-Arne-Gjersyens-MacBook-Pro:~ karl$ ls -l /usr/local/mysql I have downloaded and installed mysql-5.5.6-rc-osx-10.6-x86_64.DMG but can´t start it.
