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Mac OS X 10.4 /var/mysql/mysql.sock Missing
Posted by: Ted Fitzpatrick
Date: August 26, 2009 04:02PM

Hi,

I'm somewhat green at the command line. My new MySQL installation isn't starting and I think that I have a permissions issue. I would greatly appreciate any pointers towards how I can correct this!

I just installed MySQL 5.1.37 on an Xserve running Tiger Server, 10.4.11. The PKG installer failed so I used the Apple command line utility "installer" to run the installer. Before installing, I used ps -ax to look to see if any mysql processes were running, there weren't any. I also deleted any previous mysql receipt files from within /Library/Receipts

There had been a previous installation of MySQL 5.0.67 running on this server, but it wouldn't start after I did an Apple Software Update, so I monkeyed around and probably deleted some files that I shouldn't have, so then I decided to try to delete as many MySQL files as possible and do a fresh installation from the PKG installer from Sun/MySQL's website.

So I became su and tried to start via /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld_safe --u=mysql &

This failed, with Terminal output being:

Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/mysql
STOPPING server from pid file /var/mysql/xserve.pid

Doing some digging, I found an error file at /usr/local/mysql/data/xserve.err

I did a cat on this and found:

090826 13:40:24 mysqld_safe Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /usr/local/mysql/data
090826 13:40:24 [Warning] The --skip-thread-priority startup option is deprecated and will be removed in MySQL 7.0. MySQL 6.0 and up do not give threads different priorities.
090826 13:40:24 [Warning] Setting lower_case_table_names=2 because file system for /usr/local/mysql/data/ is case insensitive
090826 13:40:24 [Warning] No argument was provided to --log-bin, and --log-bin-index was not used; so replication may break when this MySQL server acts as a master and has his hostname changed!! Please use '--log-bin=xserve-bin' to avoid this problem.
090826 13:40:25 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled.
090826 13:40:27 InnoDB: Started; log sequence number 0 44233
090826 13:40:28 [ERROR] Can't start server : Bind on unix socket: Permission denied
090826 13:40:28 [ERROR] Do you already have another mysqld server running on socket: /var/mysql/mysql.sock ?
090826 13:40:28 [ERROR] Aborting

090826 13:40:28 InnoDB: Starting shutdown...
090826 13:40:29 InnoDB: Shutdown completed; log sequence number 0 44233
090826 13:40:29 [Warning] Forcing shutdown of 1 plugins
090826 13:40:29 [Note] /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld: Shutdown complete

090826 13:40:29 mysqld_safe mysqld from pid file /usr/local/mysql/data/xserve.pid ended

After installation, I looked for /var/mysql/mysql.sock and it's missing, just not there. I'm aware of the PHP 5 + MySQL 5 socket file issue and I'm prepared to configure my server to correct for this. However, the socket file is simply not there.

Files at /var/mysql are owned by root and wheel group. Same permissions for files at /usr/local/mysql-5.1.37-osx10.4-powerpc

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