I switched my work laptop – MacBook Air 3.2 – not without headaches… No Ubuntu at the time of writing. This will change.
But for now I needed a MySQL server running, Emacs not colliding with the Mac desktop and R all talking nicely to each other.
After downloading the MySQL-5.5.8-osx10.6-x86_64.dmg and installing MySQL-5.5.8 on MacOSX-10.6.6 (Snow Leopard) everything went fine first.
1. Install the database,
2. install the Startup script,
3. install the extension for the System Preference dialogue.
I did everything worked – until restart. OSX complained about a failing startup script (MySQL) and that was that. The menu in the system preferences did not help and trying to start the MySQL server from the shell did also not work (without throwing any error code).
The solution of debenriver (scroll down a bit) worked for me. In a nutshell:
- Fix the user rights of the startup script (that was what OSX complained about):
sudo chown -R root:wheel /Library/StartupItems/MySQLCOM
That should fix the problem, but it is not enough.- Restart the computer
- Open a terminal and navigate to MySQL
cd /usr/local/mysql- Change to superuser mode for a while
sudo echo- Set a root password for your database
sudo bin/mysqld_safe &
hit enter after the & and continue
bin/mysqladmin -u root password 'xxxxxxxx'
to enter a root password for the MySQL database (replace xxxxxx with your chosen password. This should probably be different from your computer password. Don’t forget the single quotes).
UPDATE: No, 5.5.8 does not work. After a reboot (or something) MySQL refused again to startup. I followed the recommendations on the same thread I quoted, removed MySQL 5.5 and installed MySQL 5.1.54 which was also the current version in the Ubuntu repositories on my old workhorse. Works just fine.
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