MAMP mysql server won't start. No mysql processes are running

Question

My MAMP mysql server won\'t start. All of the suggestions I\'ve seen on the web say to check for other mysqld processes running and kill them if they exist, and that it shou

Answer 1

Since none of the answers here solved my particular issue, I should probably add my own solution to to the list.

I had to hard reset my computer while MAMP was still running. This sometimes leads to a problem where, after restarting the machine MAMP can start the Apache Server, but can not start the MySQL server for some reason.

My solution for this issue was to:

• Close MAMP
• Go to Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql
• delete the file mysql.sock.lock
• Restart MAMP