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Development Tools Database Foundations Installing MySQL Server and MySQL Workbench Installing MySQL Server and Workbench on OS X

Christian Espinoza
Christian Espinoza
4,163 Points
Posted by Christian Espinoza
Christian Espinoza
4,163 Points

Can someone PLEASE help me get past this "step"??

Ive been looking through the forums and tried andrews advice about resetting the root password.

After typing in sudo /usr/local/mysql/support-files/mysql.server stop

I get this error message:ERROR! MySQL server PID file could not be found!

It also doesn't let me manually start the server from my system preferences anymore. Ive tried deleting and reinstalling Mysql to no avail! I've also restarted my computer many times(Mac OS X)

1 Answer

Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,148 Points
Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,148 Points

I can't recreate your problem be see if the accepted solution on this stack overflow thread helps you

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17424863/error-mysql-manager-or-server-pid-file-could-not-be-found-qnap