MySQL Database won't start in XAMPP Manager-osx

Question

I downloaded XAMPP about a month ago and it was working just fine. Today I installed a voice recognition software and then restarted my computer. Ever since, MySQL won\'t st

Answer 1

This could be due to the fact that another instance of mysqd is already running in your mac-book-pro (MacOs-10). It's next to impossible to kill/pkill mysqld or ....I tried that route many times, with out any success. Finally the following worked for me :

launchctl unload -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.oracle.oss.mysql.mysqld.plist

wait a few minutes and check with

ps -ef|grep mysqld

It should be gone!