<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">On 25 Oct2018, at 9:37 AM, Ryan Schmidt <<a href="mailto:ryandesign@macports.org" class="">ryandesign@macports.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""><br class="">On Oct 24, 2018, at 15:25, Murray Eisenberg wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Starting MySQL<br class=""> . ERROR! The server quit without updating PID file (/Users/me/Databases/mysql/data/mysql.pid).<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><br class="">… It is curious that it is trying to update a pid file in your data directory when your cnf file appear to have told it to put it somewhere else, but I'm not sure if that's relevant. It might be, if the data directory and the place where the cnf file says to put the pid file have different permissions.<br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><div class=""><br class=""></div>Sorry, that discrepancy re the pid file was a result of copying relevant information from two different attempts…<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">File my.cnf does, indeed, now have line:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> <span style="font-family: Menlo; font-size: 12px;" class="">pid-file = /opt/local/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid</span><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class="">have and the error when trying to start mysqld is:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> Starting MySQL</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> . ERROR! The server quit without updating PID file (/opt/local/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid).</span></div></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
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