Comments on: Bug in Mac OS X 10.3.7

By: lambert strether

lambert strether — Sun, 20 May 2007 18:41:02 +0000

This awesome thread solved my problem, which is that Apache wasn’t starting:

I’m running Mac OS X server 10.4.9 but with Apache 1.3, starting everything from the command line (bypassing the Apple GUI). This worked great until I just installed an Apple upgrade. apachectl start would seem to work, but ps -aux would show no process and apachectl stop would complain about a missing PID file. httpd -t and apachectl configtest showed the system was configured as expected (and no syntax errors).

cd /tmp
sudo chmod 1777 .

followed by an immediate reboot started apache right up. Thanks!

By: Agile Tortoise » Bum permissions on /tmp and MySQL startup

Agile Tortoise » Bum permissions on /tmp and MySQL startup — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 03:47:10 +0000

[...] Just killed an hour on getting MySQL running on my G5 at home. Thankfully, I found this blog post. Actually, I’m surprised that the bad permissions on /tmp haven’t bit me before now. I didn’t have this problem on two other machines I put MySQL on, but both of them had clean installs of Tiger, and this G5 was upgraded — so I guess it’s an old Panther bug that hung around. Cat: [...]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:55:05 +0000

son of a…

wish i’d found this sooner.

cd /tmp
sudo chmod 1777 .

thanks.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:20:17 +0000

OK. This thread has been helpful but the best resource for solving this glitch (under 10.4.4) is:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302977

See the section for ‘Self-Installed MySQL’: although the article is about OS X Server the issue is the same for ) OS 10.4.4.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 23:22:38 +0000

I just wanted to thank everyone for posting these helps! This issue was driving me nuts on my Powerbook!

Cheers!

By: john

john — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 16:59:46 +0000

Remember to try the installation advice on http://www.entropy.ch/software/macosx/mysql/, in the “Database Re-Initialization” section.

By: DT

DT — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 01:44:30 +0000

I had the same exact problem as Alan. It all worked last night, but then I couldn’t sign in to my databases in the morning. So I deleted the package, tried to reinstall, but am now having the problem everyone else is.

By: Chad Criswell

Chad Criswell — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 16:05:12 +0000

I worked on this for at least four hours. Finally, in one last effort I downloaded an earlier version of the MySQL installer, deleted all the old mysql files and folders, and installed the previous version. I still had to chown the directories to mysql, but after that it worked perfectly…

By: Chris More

Chris More — Sat, 18 Jun 2005 07:53:41 +0000

Hiya

I wrestled with this same problem for hours. After following dozens of threads and trying all solutions above to no avail, when I eventually did get it working, I’m not even sure how I did it. For a start, downgrading to PHP 4.0.24 might have helped (restarting after wiping the old version, then again after new install).

I thought I’d paste my last few steps below in the hope that anyone suffering like I was will be able to follow the same steps:

lepadouen:/usr/local/mysql root# ./bin/mysqld_safe
Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /Library/MySQL/var
STOPPING server from pid file /Library/MySQL/var/lepadouen.plus.com.pid
050523 22:31:49  mysqld ended

lepadouen:/usr/local/mysql root# sudo chown -R mysql data/
lepadouen:/usr/local/mysql root# sudo echo

lepadouen:/usr/local/mysql root# ./bin/mysqld_safe &
[1] 573
lepadouen:/usr/local/mysql root# Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /Library/MySQL/var
STOPPING server from pid file /Library/MySQL/var/lepadouen.plus.com.pid
050523 22:32:59  mysqld ended

#http://www.mysql.com
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lepadouen:/usr/local/mysql root# sudo echo                       

lepadouen:/usr/local/mysql root# /Library/MySQL/bin/mysqld_safe &
[1] 608
lepadouen:/usr/local/mysql root# Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /usr/local/mysql/var
STOPPING server from pid file /usr/local/mysql/var/127.0.0.1.pid
050523 22:35:21  mysqld ended

sudo chown -R mysql data/
[1]+  Done                    /Library/MySQL/bin/mysqld_safe
lepadouen:/usr/local/mysql root#
lepadouen:/usr/local/mysql root# /Library/MySQL/bin/mysqld_safe &
[1] 627
lepadouen:/usr/local/mysql root# Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /usr/local/mysql/var

Hope that helps?

By: Alan Eshelman

Alan Eshelman — Fri, 27 May 2005 01:31:56 +0000

man, none of this stuff helps me with my MySQL problem. I can’t get the thing running at all, i keep getting :

Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /usr/local/mysql/data
STOPPING server from pid file /usr/local/mysql/data/G5.local.pid
050526 20:05:29 mysqld ended

I’ve tried two different packages and 2 or 3 different ways to install/launch with no help.

FUnny thing is, i had it running last night but hosed my users up badly and couldn’t log in so i nuked the install. From that point on, no go. Bummage.

By: taralyn

taralyn — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 08:57:26 +0000

thanks so much. i googled ur page and the solution was EXACTLY what i needed. heh. my colleague was trying to solve the problem for days and gave up! :)

By: stephen

stephen — Sun, 24 Apr 2005 08:39:21 +0000

5th post!
okay, so i found what was wrong here

the problem was i was:
“trying to start mysqld as OS user admin. Normally, only root has the power to make the switch to user mysql called for by –user=mysql. Thus, mysqld starts running as user admin, who has no permission to touch data files owned by mysql. Try
sudo bin/mysqld_safe –user=mysql –log ”

sorry to clutter the page

By: stephen

stephen — Sun, 24 Apr 2005 08:27:25 +0000

sorry, a fourth post, and on a month and a half slept page,
“/usr/local/mysql/data/.local.err: Permission denied”
should read:
“/usr/local/mysql/data/stephen.local.err: Permission denied”

By: stephen

stephen — Sun, 24 Apr 2005 07:35:33 +0000

sorry :) 1 more piece of information:

stephen:/ stephen$ ls -F / | grep tmp
tmp@

so i don’t get what was expected:
/tmp -> /private/tmp

By: stephen

stephen — Sun, 24 Apr 2005 07:31:25 +0000

i don’t know if this is relevant, but it seems like my tmp directory a link to itself so i get:
stephen:/tmp stephen$ ls
cs_cache_lock_501 mcx_compositor tmp

is that normal?