Re: How do I uninstall MySQL from Mac OSX

[Jon Koerber]

Lindsay,

It is unclear from your post exactly what kind of problems you are having, other than some unfamiliarity with Terminal and probably some UNIX concepts.

If MySQL will not start up, we will need to see what kind of error message you are getting from it. The best way to see error messages is to start MySQL from the command line in Terminal - as the preference pane does not provide error reporting as far as I know. The other way to see what startup errors MySQL provides is by looking at the mysql error log. This file should be visible in the mysql file path found at /usr/local/mysql. By default (unless you specified a different location in your mysql config file) the error log file is in the /data/ directory.

Any startup errors for mysql will be found in this file. Look for a file named "hostname.err" where hostname is the name of your machine or 'localhost'. You can view this log file by typing "cat logfilename" (to see the whole file) or "tail logfilename" (to view just the last bits of the file) from the Terminal

It will take a little UNIX skills to navigate around and get confortable with the log files and other items, but UNIX on a Mac is a good thing.

Make another post when you find the error.