MySql server startup error The server quit without updating PID file

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On Snow Leopard  starting MySQL gives the following error      The server quit without updating PID file   my cnf   mysqld  port              3306  socket             tmp mysql sock  skip-external-locking  key buffer size   16K  pid-file  var run mysqld mysqld pid   mysqld safe   log-error  var log mysqld log  pid-file  var run mysqld mysqld pid

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Try this      Navigate to the problem s parent directory cd YOURPATH usr local mysql rm -rf   local err  deletes file  touch YOURUSERNAME local pid  generates new   local pid file the error thrown was complaining about  cd back into your project and restart mysql using mysql server start

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I had the same issue on my Mac machine  correctly followed all the installation steps suggested by brew install    Deleting the error file fixed it for me   sudo rm -rf  usr local var mysql dev work err  dev work is my hostname   This worked because dev work err was owned by  mysql wheel instead of my own username  CHOWN-ing the error file would have probably fixed it as well

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My error file told me also that the port may be being used by another process  but simply running sudo mysql server start fixed the issue for me

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In my case  when I tried to start MySQL  I received the same error  The server quit without updating PID file  This is what I did to fix it  using Terminal    goto  usr local var mysql sudo rm -rf hostname err   Delete  err file cd  usr local mysql support-files sudo mysql server start   Success

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After rebooting I had the same issue  Here is how I fixed it    sudo chown -R  mysql  usr local var mysql

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If you are running a MySQL Galera cluster such as Percona XtraDB Cluster check for wsrep recovery   files in the data directory  eg   var lib mysql    I was getting the same message from systemctl when trying to start a node which had been killed by the host s OOM killer but there was no indication of why the startup failed in any of the normal logs  The wsrep recovery files had the answer  in my case I needed to start mysql with the following flag   mysqld --tc-heuristic-recover ROLLBACK

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In my case  the error happens due to the accessing problem of the error log file    The following two commands help me address the problem   sudo chown  lt user gt   usr local var mysql  lt my-host-name gt  err sudo chmod 666  usr local var mysql  lt my-host-name gt  err

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Delete   err files that you find in the directory displayed in the error and create the file mysql is complaining about  restart mysql

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This error can occur when trying to start msql after it was improperly shutdown    Take a look at the mysql error log file  If it mentions something like  Check that you do not already have another mysqld process using the same data or log files    then you need to properly shutdown that process  See what process mysql is running on  use this command  lsof -i 3306   Your output should look like this    COMMAND  PID    USER   FD   TYPE             DEVICE SIZE OFF NODE NAME mysqld  4249 username   17u  IPv4 0x7843d9d130469c0b      0t0  TCP localhost mysql  LISTEN     Terminate the process running mysql  kill -15 4249      Kill -15 sends a siganl to the process to free up any resources it is locking and terminate the process after      Now mysql should startup with no problems  mysql server start

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What s the error log say   I got this error  and it ended up being an old invalid setting in the my cnf  which the mysql error log indicated   If not a bad config setting  the error log should at least point you in the right direction   Well  I assume the OP has fixed it at this point    but hopefully this points the others seeing this error in the right direction

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I had the same problem  moving my  etc my cnf file worked for me  I got the information here

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I m using     brand-new MacBook Pro OSX 10 7 3 x gcc via OSX GCC Installer   I Installed MySQL using homebrew   brew install mysql    It installed a couple of dependencies and then mysql   When I tried to start it up    west  mysql server start Starting MySQL    ERROR  The server quit without updating PID file   usr local var mysql west local pid     I ran this command    west   usr local Cellar mysql 5 5 25 scripts mysql install db    and MySQL works   Please take note that you need to run mysql install db from the with top level of the mysql directory  IE  usr local Cellar mysql 5 5 25   Running it directly within the  scripts directory does not give it enough context for it to run

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For me the solution was to override correct the data directory in  etc my cnf   I built MySQL 5 5 27 from source with the directions provided in the readme file       Preconfiguration setup shell gt  groupadd mysql shell gt  useradd -r -g mysql mysql   Beginning of source-build specific instructions shell gt  tar zxvf mysql-VERSION tar gz shell gt  cd mysql-VERSION shell gt  cmake   shell gt  make shell gt  make install   End of source-build specific instructions    Postinstallation setup shell gt  cd  usr local mysql shell gt  chown -R mysql   shell gt  chgrp -R mysql   shell gt  scripts mysql install db --user mysql shell gt  chown -R root   shell gt  chown -R mysql data    Next command is optional shell gt  cp support-files my-medium cnf  etc my cnf shell gt  bin mysqld safe --user mysql  amp     Next command is optional shell gt  cp support-files mysql server  etc init d mysql server     mysqld safe terminated itself without explanation  running  etc init d mysql server start resulted in the error    The server quit without updating PID file   I noticed something odd in the installation instructions though  It has ownership changed to mysql for the directory  data   but not to  var   this is unusual because for years I have had to ensure that var directory was mysql writable  So I manually ran chown -R mysql  usr local mysql var and then attempted to start it again  Still no luck  But worse  no  err file in the var dir - it was in the  data  dir  so scripts mysql install db sets up camp in  usr local mysql var  but the rest of the application seems to want to do its work in  usr local mysql data   So I just edited  etc my cnf and under the section  mysqld  I added a directive to explicitly point mysql s data directory to var  as I normally expect it to be any how   and after doing so  mysqld starts up just fine  The directive to add looks like this   datadir            usr local mysql var  Worked for me  Hope it helps for you

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Simple      Fix the 2002 MySQL Socket error  Fix the looming 2002 socket error     which is linking where MySQL places the socket and where OSX thinks it should be  MySQL puts it in  tmp and OSX looks for it in  var mysql the socket is a type of file that allows mysql client server communication   sudo mkdir  var mysql  sudo ln -s  tmp mysql sock  var mysql mysql sock  Well Done       This Help me A LOT   i took this guide from the guys on http   coolestguidesontheplanet com

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Try to remove ib logfile0 and ib logfile1 files and then run mysql again     rm  usr local var mysql ib logfile0 rm  usr local var mysql ib logfile1   It works for me

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In my case  I got this issue on vps  cPanel   I was try most of the above answers  but not success     check where your error log  It would be mentioned at the end of error line        ERROR  The server quit without updating PID file   var lib mysql 111318 vps-11 com pid      Open that file   var lib mysql 111318 vps-11 com err  and chek the bottom for lates lines  In my case  there is        ERROR  Fatal error  Can t open and lock privilege tables  Table    mysql db  is marked as crashed and should be repaired    How solve this  Recovering and fixing the table indexes by command            myisamchk -r  var lib mysql mysql db MYI   https   forums cpanel net threads mysql-is-not-running 407142     Re Start your mysql

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Remove the pid file  then start up mysqld again

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This problem usually arrives when you did not have libaio 1 library installed  Install that package first and redo the mysql install db step

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Somehow I screwed up my permissions on El Capitan and decided to reinstall MySQL from scratch   I use brew on el capitan  and decided to reinstall   brew uninstall mysql sudo rm -rf  usr local var mysql brew install mysql mysql server start       SUCCESS   The file permissions on fresh install changed from  mysql to include my username       ls -alh  usr local var mysql drwxr-xr-x   22 lfender  admin   748B Mar 22 09 58         etc

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The problem is a permissions one  it can t start because it can t write to mac err because its owned by someone else   Make sure the  usr local var mysql folder is owned by the user that will start mysql  If I start mysql as jack its all good   However  if you start it as root  it will create a mac err  owned by root  file that jack can t write to  so when you try to restart it as jack it will fail    Ensure the folder and files are owned by the user running mysql server start Make sure there s not already a mac err or mac pid owned by someone else  Start is as the right user

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I fixed this issue by running sudo chown -R myUserName  usr local var mysql  Here myUserName is my current login username

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Did you follow the instructions from brew install mysql  Set up databases to run AS YOUR USER ACCOUNT with  For mysql 5 x   unset TMPDIR mysql install db --verbose --user  whoami  --basedir  quot   brew --prefix mysql  quot  --datadir  usr local var mysql --tmpdir  tmp  To set up base tables in another folder  or use a different user to run mysqld  view the help for mysqld install db  mysql install db --help  and view the MySQL documentation   http   dev mysql com doc refman 5 5 en mysql-install-db html http   dev mysql com doc refman 5 5 en default-privileges html  For mysql 8 x   unset TMPDIR mysqld --initialize-insecure --log-error-verbosity --user  whoami  --basedir  quot   brew --prefix mysql  quot  --datadir  usr local var mysql --tmpdir  tmp  Make sure the data directory  usr local var mysql above is empty  backup it if necessary  To run as  for instance  user  quot mysql quot   you may need to sudo  sudo mysql install db    options     Start mysqld manually with  mysql server start  Note  if this fails  you probably forgot to run the first two steps up above

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Start Mysql in safe mode    usr local mysql bin mysqld safe start   OR   on MAC End any mysql or mysqld task  or other  in your Activity Monitor application   or check you error by  tail -f  usr local mysql data XXXXX-XXXXX-Pro local err

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The solution that worked for me was here  https   serverfault com questions 334284 cant-create-pid-file-on-mysql-server-permission-denied  Changing some of my permissions seemed to do the trick  I m running a Mid-2012 Macbook Air with OS X 10 8 2 and mysql was installed with homebrew   chmod 0755  var chown root wheel  var tmp sudo chmod 0771  usr local var mysql

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I hope this work for you   After checking the error log  I found this   120309 17 42 49 mysqld safe Starting mysqld daemon with databases from  usr local mysql data 120309 17 42 50  Warning  Setting lower case table names 2 because file system for  usr local mysql data  is case insensitive 120309 17 42 50  Warning  You need to use --log-bin to make --binlog-format work  120309 17 42 50  Note  Plugin  FEDERATED  is disabled  120309 17 42 50 InnoDB  The InnoDB memory heap is disabled 120309 17 42 50 InnoDB  Mutexes and rw locks use GCC atomic builtins 120309 17 42 50 InnoDB  Compressed tables use zlib 1 2 3 120309 17 42 50 InnoDB  Initializing buffer pool  size   16 0M 120309 17 42 50 InnoDB  Completed initialization of buffer pool 120309 17 42 50  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  usr local mysql data ib logfile0 InnoDB  File operation call   open   InnoDB  Cannot continue operation  120309 17 42 50 mysqld safe mysqld from pid file  usr local mysql data lu1s local pid ended   And to solve it  I gave ownership rights to the entire mysql folder   cd  usr local sudo chown mysql mysql sudo chown mysql mysql-5 5 21-osx10 6-x86 64 sudo chown  mysql mysql sudo chown  mysql mysql-5 5 21-osx10 6-x86 64   Then  you can do it command-line too   I applied the permissions  once I gave that ownership to  mysql and mysql users  to all enclosed folders from within the  get info  menu of the folder at  usr local mysql-5 5 21-osx10 6-x86 64   You don t need to tho that to the alias since it s only an alias   The name of the folder depends of the installation version of mysql that you have

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try to find your log file with suffix   err   there should be more info  It might be in       usr local var mysql your computer name local err   It s probably problem with permissions   check if any mysql instance is running     ps -ef   grep mysql   if yes  you should stop it  or kill the process     kill -9 PID    where PID is the number displayed next to username on output of previous command check ownership of  usr local var mysql      ls -laF  usr local var mysql    if it is owner by root you should change it mysql or your user     sudo chown -R mysql  usr local var mysql

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This worked for me     Check all of the MySQL processes running     ps aux   grep mysql  USER     PID     CPU   MEM   mysql   5970   0 0   0 4       Then kill all the processes listed from the above command using the following     sudo kill -9  PID    Replace  PID  with the individual PID from the list above  e g  5970   Do that for all of the lines you see with the first command   Then you can startup your MySQL server again   mysql server start

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In my case  the problem was  that mysql data directory was moved by accident to wrong directory   var log  and not to  var lib   After moving data back to  var lib mysql and restarting server  all everything went back to normal again

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Move the log file named    ib logfile    in     var lib mysql    and restart mysql  Sometimes mysql will fail because it faces difficulty updating the log file  mv  var lib mysql ib logfile   some tmp folder    You can also remove ib logfile as it will be created automatically after mysql restart  now restart mysql server

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I encountered this issue after swapping server IPs  Database was working fine before that  There was an entry in  etc my cnf that I needed to update   bind-address   xxx xxx xxx xx  It had the old IP address in there

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For me the fix was simple   top   showed that mysqld was already running  sudo killall mysqld    then allowed the process to start

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In my homebrew mysql installation  I simply had to move the ib logfile0 and ib logfile1 located in  usr local var mysql  to a different directory   Then I just did mysql server start and everything worked

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I tried remove all the   err but still getting the same error   I got one of the error in error log       ERROR  InnoDB  Attempted to open a previously opened tablespace  Previous tablespace erp brand uses space ID      7 at filepath    erp brand ibd  Cannot open tablespace webdb1 system user which uses space ID  7 at filepath    webdb1 system     user ibd   so I delete all the ib  files and it works   rm -f   err ib

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With the help of a few answers posted here  I was able to find the issue  First I run   sudo -i  So I could have root access   Than I deleted the xxxx err file  rm -rf  usr local mysql data xxxx err  after I started MySQL in SafeMode   usr local mysql bin mysqld safe start  It will try to start and will exit because of an error    a new xxx err file will be created and you need to read it to see the cause of the error  tail -f  usr local mysql data mysqld local err  On my case  for some reason  it was missing some folder and file inside  var log  folder    So I created both  cd  var log  mkdir mysql  touch mysql-bin index  After the new file was created  than you need to change permission  chown -R  mysql  var log mysql  When all those steps where taken  my database started working immediately      Hope this can help others here    The key is to read the error and log and find whats is wrong

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If no one answer helped you  just remove folder  usr local var mysql and then install mysql again brew reinstall mysql

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I recently came across this issue  however it was working before  then stopped   This was because I initially started mysql server as root instead of myself   The fix was to delete the err log file  which was owned by  mysql    Starting it again got it passed

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Had the same issue  for me it was doing a brew remove while having a previous install of the mysqld running  Seems brew does not stop a service before uninstalling   After checking the  err file i saw the logged error that another copy of mysql may be running  after terminating the old service  I was then able to restart the new mysql install

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If your system has multiple version of Mysql then you are likely going to hit this PID error  we can begin with killing all MySQL process sudo killall mysqld   Go to  usr local choose which MySQL version you want to have  then provide the MySQL permission to that  In my case I needed version 8   sudo chown -R mysql mysql-8 0 21-macos10 15-x86 64   Go to the folder  usr local mysql-8 0 21-macos10 15-x86 64  amp  start SQL server  sudo   mysql server start Enter your laptop password  If it gives below output    the PID issue is solved  xxxx-M-R0SU support-files   sudo   mysql server start Starting MySQL    SUCCESS

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open  usr local var mysql   you just remove the folder in finder  and    brew install mysql   install again   I ve solved from this solution   But this solution will be delete your database

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Could be related to old MySQL process  You need to kill it and restart  Sometimes it can be due to a conflict in MySQL config file  Try to move it and restart MySQL  Check the following url for more details   http   linuxadministrator pro blog  p 225  Thanks

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disable selinux in  etc selinux config  SELINUX disabled and restart the server

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This worked for me   On a Mac with Homebrew   List all instances of mysql that exists by running     brew services   Remove each instance by running     brew uninstall  lt instance name gt    Delete Mysql directory in  usr local var mysql     rm -rf  usr local var mysql   Reinstall mysql using homebrew     brew install mysql   brew install mysql  lt version gt   Optional   Rerun mysql server start    mysql server start

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I was trying to reinstall mysql  and I actually forgot to stop the server from my old install  To solve that  ps -ax   grep mysql  then kill  whatever PIDs   But  then again  it s different for everybody  Like the other answers said  go to  usr local var mysql  and check your  err log file

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For me I had to reinstall mysql   brew reinstall mysql   and then below To have launchd start mysql now and restart at login   brew services start mysql

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It seems that MySQL process is running hence you are unable to use the port  You can check the running MySQL process using following command   ps auxf   grep mysql  If you get any MySQL process kill that process ID using kill -9 PID and then try to start MySQL

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On Mavericks  this script helped me   bash  lt  curl -Ls http   git io eUx7rg    And then I reset my password according with https   stackoverflow com a 25883967 221781

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I had this problem while trying to brew upgrade on MacOS X 10 7 5   Unfortunately mysql was also upgraded to 5 6 10 from 5 5 14  Tried the new  did not work   I decided to go back to my old setup and did a  brew switch mysql 5 5 14   This did not solve the problem  Elsewhere I read and did this  voila  All was back     cd  usr local var mysql mv ib logfile0 ib logfile0 bak mv ib logfile1 ib logfile1 bak

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its a problem in  5 5 version   Here s an example for the  mysqld  section of your my cnf    skip-character-set-client-handshake  collation server utf8 unicode ci  character set server utf8   refers  http   dev mysql com doc refman 5 6 en charset-server html

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Check if you have space left in your drive  I got this problem when no space left in my drive

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I had the same problem  The reason is quite simple  I installed 2 mysql server  One from Mac Port  the other from downloaded package  So I just follow the instruction here and uninstalled the one from package  How do you uninstall MySQL from Mac OS X  After that  mysql is working well

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I encountered this problem after reboot and removing all  err files   It appeared for me that my cnf d directory was missing in  usr local etc   It created it   mkdir  usr local etc my cnf d   And just copy-pasted my cnf et my cnf default located in  usr local etc into that directory   Then Mysql was able to restart    cd  usr local var mysql  mysql server start   And MYSQL works

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