After MySQL install via Brew I get the error - The server quit without updating PID file

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Ok  I ve searched all over and have spent quite a bit of my time installing  uninstalling  trying various option but without success   I m on Mac OS X Lion  10 7 3  and am trying to setup a Python  MySQL   I successfully installed Python and MySQL via HomeBrew  Python works great   After MySQL Installation  I followed the first 2 steps - unset and the mysql install db commands   Now  when I try to start mysql  mysql server start   I get the following error  ERROR  The server quit without updating PID file   usr local var mysql Brajeshwar local pid      Brajeshwar is my username on my machine

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I had this issue on mac 10 10 5 Yosemite  What I did to solve this   cd  usr local var mysql  sudo rm   err  amp  amp  sudo rm   pid  sudo reboot sudo mysql server start

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First mv -f  var lib mysql  var lib mysql bak and try the command mysql install db --user mysql --ldata  destination  replace the destination with the data directory  after that start the MySQL with  etc init d mysql restart

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Happened to me because I was actually switching from MariaDB to Mysql  Switching back to MariaDB solved this   I m guessing the existing database wasn t compatible

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My issue was that I started server as sudo once and then tried to restart as a local user   Here mysql was not able to write to   err  file owned by root  I had to remove that file and restart the server   sudo rm  usr local var mysql   err mysql server start

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I had this problem on Linux  but the cause is relevant to any mysql installation   In my case  the server was crashing before startup was complete and the pid file updated   The error messages were seen when starting up mysqld directly instead of via  service mysql start    In my case  the cause was the partition where the log files were located being full   Removing log files permitted mysql to start again   To test for this issue  go to the location of your mysql activity logs  and do df

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If you have upgraded your mysql installation to 8 x  check if your previous version is supported for upgradation    If not  mysql will not work  Uninstall your mysql along with all configuration files in  usr local var mysql  remove the whole folder   Reinstall mysql   NOTE  reinstalling might lead to loss of data

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My solution on OSX El Capitan was   sudo chmod ugo w  tmp   It was broken suddenly   The error was   ERROR  The server quit without updating PID file   and the log showed   Can t start server   Bind on unix socket  Permission denied   It might also be helpful to note  that under OSX there is no my cnf file by default and not needed by default  which I did not know  Good luck

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This worked for me on 10 12 2      rm  usr local var mysql   err   then    brew services restart mysql

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I found that it was a permissions issue with the mysql folder   chmod -R 777  usr local var mysql     solved it for me

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This error may be actually being show because mysql is already started   Try to see the current status by   mysql server status

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The key takeaway is to check the  err file  by default on Mac OSX it s in  usr local var mysql    That log filed revealed to me that I had to delete the following files   ibdata1 ib logfile0 ib logfile1   Running MySQL with mysql start worked successfully after that  Note that deleting those files will likely causes data loss

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EDIT 2012 09 18  As pointed out by Kane  make sure the mysql database is properly set up before doing anything else  See    PID error on mysql server start     for more info   Original answer kept for history s sake  It most likely is a permissions issue  Check  usr local var mysql   err  Mine said   120314 16 30 14  InnoDB  Operating system error number 13 in a file operation  InnoDB  The error means mysqld does not have the access rights to InnoDB  the directory  InnoDB  File name   ibdata1 InnoDB  File operation call   open   InnoDB  Cannot continue operation  120314 16 30 14 mysqld safe mysqld from pid file  usr local var mysql janmoesen local pid ended   I also had to do this   sudo chown  mysql  usr local var mysql

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I had the same issue on OS X El Capitan  here s the terminal command sequence that fixed it for me   Delete error files  you ll have to change the path depending on your setup   sudo rm  usr local mysql data   err   Find the info for the mysql process that s still running and kill it   ps -A   grep -m1 mysql   awk   print  1     sudo xargs kill -9   Now restart MySQL    usr local mysql support-files mysql server start

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For me it worked with   unset TMPDIR mysql install db --user  whoami  --basedir    brew --prefix mariadb   --datadir  usr local var mysql --tmpdir  tmp

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Try this  OSX   Step 1  ps -aux   grep mysql  Then kill the 4 digits PID number  Step 2  kill 1965  Step 3  mysql server start  Or having hard time to locate those PID numbers  try this below  Step 1 again  ps -aux   grep mysql  Step 2 again  killall  Step 3 again  mysql server start

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What worked for me was    Go to your mysql installation directory sudo chmod -R 777 data Then go back one directory cd support-files  sudo   mysql server start   After that the server started running   But the problem with this method is that I have to repeat this every time I want to start the mysql now  Don t know why it started behaving like this suddenly

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While Installing from source please follow the instruction in file INSTALL-SOURCE   where installation instruction are given in section 2 8   after installation  check are there any process running of mysql with ps aux   grep  mysql  You ll find like this  root      1817  0 0  0 0 108336  1228          S    Jan21   0 00  bin sh  usr local mysql bin mysqld safe --datadir  usr local mysql data --pid-file  usr local mysql data mail gaurav local pid mysql     2141  0 0  1 2 497660 24588          Sl   Jan21   0 26  usr local mysql bin mysqld --basedir  usr local mysql --datadir  usr local mysql data --plugin-dir  usr local mysql lib plugin --user mysql --log-error  usr local mysql data mail gaurav local err --pid-file  usr local mysql data mail gaurav local pid --socket  tmp mysql sock --port 3306 root      5659  0 0  0 0 103256   840 pts 13   S    11 30   0 00 grep mysql   kill all process related to mysql and then try to start mysql server

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I   ve got a similar problem with MySQL on a Mac  Mac Os X Could not startup MySQL Server  Reason  255 and also    ERROR  The server quit without updating PID file      After a long trial and error process  finally in order to restore the file permissions  I   ve just do that   launch the Disk Utilities app choose my drive on the left panel click on the    Repair disk permissions    button  This did the trick for me  Hoping this can help someone else

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None of the answers worked for me  However  I simply did sudo mysql server start and it worked nicely   Also  for me  it did NOT show permissions issue in   err file

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Solved this using sudo chown -R  mysql  mysql  usr local var mysql Thanks to Matteo Alessani

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Please check the log   you will get more detailed information    Use the below command to tail the error log  tail -100  usr local var mysql  lt user name gt  local err   For me   one of the directory is missing   once created the server has started

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I ended up with completely reinstalling of mysql  and it finally worked out   WARNING This will remove all of your databases  so make sure to save dumps first   brew remove mysql brew cleanup launchctl unload -w   Library LaunchAgents homebrew mxcl mysql plist rm   Library LaunchAgents homebrew mxcl mysql plist sudo rm -rf  usr local var mysql  brew install mysql mysqld --initialize --explicit defaults for timestamp mysql server start   no sudo

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Find usr local var mysql your computer name local err file and understand the more information about error  Location    usr local var mysql your computer name local err  It s probably problem with permissions   Find if mysql is running and kill it      ps -ef   grep mysql      kill -9 PID   where PID is second column value  2  check ownership of mysql     ls -laF  usr local var mysql    if it is owned by root  change it mysql or your user name        sudo chown -R mysql  usr local var mysql

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This worked for me   sudo chmod -R 777  usr local var mysql  sudo  usr local mysql support-files mysql server start

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I had the same issue   But the situation was  every time i try to enter    usr local mysql support-files mysql server start   a file named localhost pid is created instead of iMax0 local pid which was stated in the error   ERROR  The server quit without updating PID file   usr local mysql data iMax0 local pid     Solution that works for me was copying localhost pid and renaming it to iMax0 local pid

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sudo mysql server restart   It works for me

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sudo chmod -R 777  usr local var mysql    works for me

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I had the similar issue  But the following commands saved me    cd  usr local Cellar sudo chown  mysql mysql

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If I remember correctly it is a permissions issue  Try to  touch  and  chmod  the pid file or the folder the file is held in

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November  2014  If you re getting this error on MySQL 5 6 x on Mac OS X Mavericks or Yosemite and want to use MySQL with PHP locally   tmp mysql sock is where PHP PDO expects to find the sock file   here is what fixed it for me   1  Uncomment the default homebrew config file lines and edit as below    sudo vi  usr local Cellar mysql 5 6 21 my cnf     basedir    usr local Cellar mysql 5 6 21 datadir    usr local var mysql port   3306 server id    lt UNIQUE NUMBER HERE OR LEAVE COMMENTED OUT gt  socket    tmp mysql sock pid-file    usr local var mysql  BOXNAME  local pid        BOXNAME is what you have in your System Prefs -  Network as the unique id for your computer on the network   2  Set permissions on all the files in the mysql datadir  These were all owned by  my username   MySQL is very picky about this and refuses to create the pid file unless it  the user  mysql  owns the directory     sudo chown -R  mysql mysql  usr local var mysql   3  Start MySQL using the bash helper wrapper script     sudo mysql server start Starting MySQL   SUCCESS     Hope that helps  If the above doesn t work for you  try to run the mysqld safe binary manually in the Cellar mysql VERSION  bin  directory and check what the settings are  if it runs   sudo  usr local Cellar mysql 5 6 12 bin mysqld safe  amp    If that runs  you can   ps aux   grep mysql    and see something like   username   6881   0 0  2 7  3081392 454836       S     8 52AM   0 00 54  usr local Cellar mysql 5 6 21 bin mysqld --basedir  usr local Cellar mysql 5 6 21 --datadir  usr local var mysql --plugin-dir  usr local Cellar mysql 5 6 21 lib plugin --verbose --log-error  usr local var mysql BOXNAME local err --pid-file  usr local var mysql BOXNAME local pid   I m not sure why that worked for me but it shows you where I got the my cnf config file options from  You can also use the command line options to try to troubleshoot when starting mysqld manually   If you do run manage to run MySQL server using mysqld safe  you may have to do this to shut it down before trying the mysql server bash helper  Resist the urge to kill -9  PID  because you can corrupt your data   mysqladmin -uroot shutdown   Good luck

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all solutions above doesn t work for me  but they give me some clues to fix this error   mysql server start ----error The server quit without updating PID file  I installed mysql 5 7 on my macbook mojave with homebrew  brew install mysql 5 7  mysql error log located in  usr local var mysql IU lan err there is one line in it  Can t open and lock privilege tables  Table  mysql user  doesn t exist after trying many posts in goole search engine I turned to baidu https   blog csdn net xhool article details 52398042 inspired by this post I found the solution   rm  usr local var mysql   mysqld --initialize  a random password for root user will be shown in bash  but the command mysql -uroot -p theRandomPassword  cant work so I have to reset password  create a init file with contents like this  SET PASSWORD FOR  root   localhost    PASSWORD  MyNewPass     place it in any directory easy to find such as Desktop  mysqld --init-file  YourInitFile   amp   many logs printed on your screen   mysql -uroot -pMyNewPass  enjoy your high-version mysql

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This is file permission problem  Check disk permissions and repair   Osx    Cmd Space    Disk Utilty    Verify Disk Permissions   Verify completed after Repair Disk Permissions  mysql server start command is worked succesfuly

[mysql] After MySQL install via Brew, I get the error - The server quit without updating PID file

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