http://www.robbyonrails.com/articles/2007/10/27/starting-mysql-after-upgrading-to-os-x-leopard en-us 40 thoughts.sort_by{|t| t[:topic]}.collect <p>If you upgraded to <span class="caps">OS X</span> Leopard and are running <a href="http://mysql.com">MySQL</a> from the MySQL.com installer^{<a href="#fn1">1</a>}, you might be having some problems with starting it from the <span class="caps">GUI</span> interface. There isn&#8217;t a fix from MySQL yet, so to get around that&#8230; you can run it from the command-line.</p> <h2>Start MySQL from the command line</h2> <p><code>cd /usr/local/mysql; ./bin/mysqld_safe &#38;</code></p> <p>This should get MySQL up and running for you. If someone wants to share a tip on how to get this to start automatically on reboot, please post a comment and I&#8217;ll help get the word out.</p> <p id="fn1">¹ I didn&#8217;t have this problem as I <a href="http://www.robbyonrails.com/articles/2007/06/19/installing-ruby-on-rails-and-postgresql-on-os-x-second-edition">installed MySQL via MacPorts</a>... but this came up for a few members of <a href="http://planetargon.com"><span class="caps">PLANET ARGON</span></a> after they upgraded to Leopard.</p> Sat, 27 Oct 2007 06:13:00 -0500 urn:uuid:1fbb7a95-3045-4e65-a416-c33efbf8bbd1 Robby Russell http://www.robbyonrails.com/articles/2007/10/27/starting-mysql-after-upgrading-to-os-x-leopard apple leopard osx mysql tip