can't start MySql in Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard

Question

I\'ve googled this and could\'nt find anything new and useful for Apple\'s new OS SnowLeopard. I wonder if this is my mistake or I do need to do something?

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Answer 1

I'm not entirely sure why my MySQL installation stopped working but it started trying to run as the incorrect user, as mysql instead of _mysql

Here was my error output:

140422 14:46:14 mysqld_safe Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /usr/local/mysql/data
140422 14:46:14 [Warning] Setting lower_case_table_names=2 because file system for /usr/local/mysql/data/ is case insensitive
140422 14:46:14 [ERROR] Fatal error: Can't change to run as user 'mysql' ;  Please check that the user exists!

140422 14:46:14 [ERROR] Aborting

140422 14:46:14 [Note] /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld: Shutdown complete

The fix for me was to edit /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld_safe and set the user line at the top from:

user='mysql'

to

user='_mysql'

That line was on line 25 for me with mysql-5.5.37-osx10.6-x86_64