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Zend Server Community Edition for Mac OS X – MySQL problem

February 28, 2010 | 3 Comments

I switched my dev. environnement at work from MAMP to Zend Server Community Edition a while ago but was disappointed that my Mac Book could not migrate because of a MySql error. Every time I would try to run the server, I would get the following error:

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ERROR! MySQL PID file could not be found!

Googling this error, all kinds of solutions came up: privileges on the files, misconfiguration issues, installation problems…
It seems to be a generic message. After trying to understand what might have happened to the missing PID file, I tried re-installations and all the common MySql on Mac OS X tips I could find on Google. No luck. At least, MAMP worked.

Eventually, the same error occured on alheim’s computer. He eventually found a solution which worked for him (SnowLeopard running on Mac Book Pro) for my own laptop as well (Snow Leopard on a black MacBook).

So here are the steps we took:

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cd /usr/local/zend/mysql
sudo scripts/mysql_install_db
sudo chown -R zend:wheel data
cd ..
sudo bin/zendctl.sh start-mysql

Hopefully, you’ll get a “SUCCCESS” message, too. Thanks to Alheim for the tip.


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  1. samantha says:
    February 28, 2010 at 8:05 am

    New blog post: Zend Server Community Edition for Mac OS X – MySQL problem:
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  2. greg says:
    May 28, 2010 at 6:53 pm

    Hi,
    I have exactly the same problem and environment (MacBook PRO with alread MAMP installed) and i can’t solve the problem

    ERROR! MySQL PID file could not be found!

    I have tried your solution but no way…
    EDIT > ARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHH i have just forgot one line now it works !

    Thank you so much

    greg

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