Fatal error Please read Security section of the manual to find out how to run mysqld as root

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I am not sure how to fix this   dyn-72-33-214-45 python mona  sudo  usr local mysql bin mysqld stop 2014-09-06 09 49 04 0  Warning  TIMESTAMP with implicit DEFAULT value is deprecated  Please use --explicit defaults for timestamp server option  see documentation for more details   2014-09-06 09 49 04 22992  Warning  Setting lower case table names 2 because file system for  usr local mysql-5 6 15-osx10 7-x86 64 data  is case insensitive 2014-09-06 09 49 04 22992  ERROR  Fatal error  Please read  Security  section of the manual to find out how to run mysqld as root   2014-09-06 09 49 04 22992  ERROR  Aborting  2014-09-06 09 49 04 22992  Note  Binlog end 2014-09-06 09 49 04 22992  Note   usr local mysql bin mysqld  Shutdown complete

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I had this issue while running MySQL on Minikube  Ubuntu box  and I solved it with   sudo ln -s  etc apparmor d usr sbin mysqld  etc apparmor d disable  sudo apparmor parser -R  etc apparmor d usr sbin mysqld

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How i resolved this was following the 4th point in this url  https   dev mysql com doc refman 8 0 en changing-mysql-user html   Edit my cnf Add user   root under under  mysqld  group of the file   If this doesn t work then make sure you have changed the password from default

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osx could be using launchctl to launch mysql  Try this    sudo launchctl unload -w  Library LaunchDaemons com mysql mysqld plist

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in my case  RHEL7 and MariaDB  this works   sudo systemctl restart mariadb

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On top of  mise s answer   After I installed MacOS Mojave  I also had to change files ownership on all my MAMP directory and contents    From the Finder  I went in Application MAMP  showed files info  cmd   i  and in permissions section added myself with read  amp  write perms  then from the little gear applied to all the children

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The correct answer that worked for me on CentOS is   etc init d mysql restart   which is an init script and not  etc init d mysqld restart  which is binary  The is in fact comment of  MrTux on the question which worked for me  It took quite a bit of my time hence posting it as answer

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you might try this if you logged in with root   mysqld --user root

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I also had the same problem and able to resolve after using below command   root mysql-sandboxes 3320 bin mysqld --defaults-file  root mysql-sandboxes 3320 my cnf  --user root  amp

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Very weird  but I got this error when I made a typo in the my cnf file  So it had nothing to do with the user directive not defined or not running as root-user  My mistake was  bind 192 168 1 2  instead of bind-address 192 168 1 2

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Donal had the right solution for me   However  the updated plist name for 2017 is   com oracle oss mysql mysqld plist

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Try this for  Amazon Linux AMI or for centOS  sudo service mysqld restart

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I m using OS X  Yosemite  and this error happened to me when I upgraded from Mavericks to Yosemite  It was solved by using this command  sudo  usr local mysql support-files mysql server start

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to run mysqld as root user from command line you need to add the switch options  --user root  mariadb run as system root user

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The MySQL daemon should not be executed as the system user root which  normally  do not has any restrictions   According to your cli  I suppose you wanted to execute the initscript instead   sudo  etc init d mysql stop   Another way would be to use the mysqladmin tool  note  root is the MySQL root user here  not the system  root user     usr local mysql bin mysqladmin --port 8889 -u root shutdown

[mysql] Fatal error: Please read "Security" section of the manual to find out how to run mysqld as root

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