Re: a curse on OS sierra and MySQL?
Peter Brawley <[email protected]>
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On 12/2/2016 16:59, Martin Mueller wrote: > I have been trying repeatedly and in vain to install the community edition of MySQL 5.7.16 on an iMac running OS sierra. I religiously followed the instructions for uninstalling previous versions found at http://community.jaspersoft.com/wiki/uninstall-mysql-mac-os-x, and installation progresses smoothly and terminates successfully. Bu the attempt to start the server produces the error message : > ERROR! MySQL server PID file could not be found! Is http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4444861/pid-error-on-mysql-server-start helpful? PB ----- > > I have tried this and that, looking at advice on the Web, which is plentiful but not always. Nothing works. > > I have installed Postgresql, about which I know very little. But the installation proceeded smoothly, and turning the server on and off works like a charm. > > Is it a reasonable conclusion that MySQl and OS 10 just don’t like each other very much and that a prudent man is better off with some other database? The MySQL documentation is not very helpful in the sense that following it doesn’t produce good results. > -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql