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Posted by Alex Cory
Alex Cory
7,069 Points

MySQL won't stop running

I've tried to stop the process but it keeps giving me this error:

Executing '/usr/local/mysql/support-files/mysql.server stop' 2013-12-23 21:08:29 - Stop server: ERROR! MySQL server PID file could not 2013-12-23 21:08:29 - Stop server: be found!

Here's a screenshot. http://imageshack.us/a/img69/5515/dr1k.png

7 Answers

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

Terminate the process

http://etherealmind.com/osx-restart-system-processes/

Alex Cory
Alex Cory
7,069 Points
Alex Cory
Alex Cory
7,069 Points

I tried all of those and it still hasn't stopped running... unfortunately. I tried double checking with both the system preferences view as well as the mySQL workbench view. The system preferences says it's running. No response when I click stop. When I go to the workbench it says off and without me clicking start it just turns on. I do have MAMP installed. Not sure if this is messing with it.

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

If system preferences says it's running then you need to kill it.

http://blog.houen.net/kill-program-mac-os-x-terminal/

Alex Cory
Alex Cory
7,069 Points
Alex Cory
Alex Cory
7,069 Points

Okay so here are the results. Still hasn't stopped.. ugh..

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

Try killall -9 mysqld

Alex Cory
Alex Cory
7,069 Points
Alex Cory
Alex Cory
7,069 Points

The result was:

No matching processes belonging to you were found

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

Did you run it with sudo?

Alex Cory
Alex Cory
7,069 Points

Yessir

Alex Cory
Alex Cory
7,069 Points
Alex Cory
Alex Cory
7,069 Points

I totally figured it out! Wow I feel like an idiot. I went back and tried everything you suggested a second time and realized that when I used the activity monitor I didn't Force Quit MySQL I simply quit it, which did nothing. This worked like a charm. Thanks for all your awesome help!