Mysql server on MAMP won't start

Question

My Mysql server on MAMP won\'t start. This is the error:

161224 00:15:00 mysqld_safe Logging to \'/Applications/MAMP/logs/mysql_error_log.err\'. 16

Answer 1

I am working on oS-X (Mac), I was wondering around and came to see this post which help me a lot.
Many readers are being able to solve this problem thanks to the amazing here are the step to fix it out--

This issue generally occur due to explicitly closing of MAMP serves.

1. Quit MAMP.
2. In the finder go to Applications/MAMP/db/mysql/
3. Delete the last log file (look for a file named ib_logfileN – being N the log number Eg-ib_logfile0 and ib_logfile1) we can see in below image.

4. Please back up these before you delete them.
5. Restart MAMP.

It Worked for me, hope will work for you too..