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Petter Östergren
Petter Östergren
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Posted by Petter Östergren
Petter Östergren
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Mysql won't start

Hello, I'm trying to start MAMP but my MySQL server won't start.

Im on OSX.

My log looks like 

[Wed Dec 06 17:16:50 2017] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Wed Dec 06 17:17:10 2017] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Wed Dec 06 17:17:10 2017] [notice] Digest: done
[Wed Dec 06 17:17:10 2017] [notice] FastCGI: process manager initialized (pid 70948)
[Wed Dec 06 17:17:10 2017] [notice] Apache/2.2.32 (Unix) mod_wsgi/3.5 Python/2.7.13 PHP/7.1.8 mod_ssl/2.2.32 OpenSSL/1.0.2j DAV/2 mod_fastcgi/2.4.6 mod_perl/2.0.9 Perl/v5.24.0 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Wed Dec 06 17:17:44 2017] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down

Have tried reinstalling ( using app cleaner ) and have also tried diffrent solutions on stackoverflow

rm /Applications/MAMP/db/mysql56/*

sudo killall -9 mysqld