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

Nothing else really helped, but the following worked:

$ ps aux | grep mysql
tagir           27260   0.0  1.0  3562356 175120   ??  S     2:52PM   0:00.42 mysqld --skip-grant-tables
tagir           42704   0.0  0.0  2434840    784 s000  S+    3:04PM   0:00.00 grep mysql
$ kill 27260
# Careful! This might erase your existing data
$ rm -rf /usr/local/var/mysql
$ mysqld --initialize
$ mysql.server start