PID error on mysql.server start?

Question

I\'ve just tried installing MySQL using homebrew (on Mac OS X 10.6), but I\'ve run across an issue at the first hurdle. When trying to manually start the server (mysql.serve

Answer 1

I ran into this same problem when installing via homebrew. Make sure you run these commands (which are listed during install but easy to miss):

unset TMPDIR
mysql_install_db