mysql configuration stops at “starting server”

Question

I was installing MySQL installer on my windows 8 machine. During the server configuration process, it gets stuck at \"starting server\" and doesn\'t move any further. The lo

Answer 1

Adding this for others.

I had install set up to configure windows service.

Looking in Windows Event Viewer => Windows Logs => Application I found:

C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.6\bin\mysqld.exe: Error while setting value '0.0' to 'lower_case_table_names'

Checking the init file in C:\ProgramData\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.6\my.ini

I found:

# Specifies the on how table names are stored in the metadata.
# If set to 0, will throw an error on case-insensitive operative systems
# If set to 1, table names are stored in lowercase on disk and comparisons are not case sensitive.
# If set to 2, table names are stored as given but compared in lowercase.
# This option also applies to database names and table aliases.
lower_case_table_names=0.0

I changed the value to 0, but on reinstall it reappeared as 0.0 so during the install and whilst the installation hanged at 'Starting Server' I edited the my.ini file, saved it, opened the services viewer and manually started the service MySql56. The installation then completed