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

What worked for me was:

I had a process called "mysqld" running even when MAMP had been quit. I force quit the process, restarted MAMP and it worked again.