ERROR! MySQL manager or server PID file could not be found! QNAP

Question

I am having an issue where MySQL isn\'t starting on my QNAP NAS.

I found this first by not being able to log in through phpMyAdmin - was getting error:

Answer 1

Note: If you just want to stop MySQL server, this might be helpful. In my case, it kept on restarting as soon as I killed the process using PID. Also brew stop command didn't work as I installed without using homebrew. Then I went to mac system preferences and we have MySQL installed there. Just open it and stop the MySQL server and you're done. Here in the screenshot, you can find MySQL in bottom of system preferences.