mysql keeps stopping!

[tachu]

Ok everything was working fine yesterday, but today the mysql service stopped automatically. I started it again on the control panel, but then it stops after like 3 seconds. it says something like port 3306 is taken or something...

First i thought it was the firewall, so i turned it off and it still doesnt work.

Any ideas why this is happening?

[taustin]

Ok everything was working fine yesterday, but today the mysql service stopped automatically. I started it again on the control panel, but then it stops after like 3 seconds. it says something like port 3306 is taken or something...

First i thought it was the firewall, so i turned it off and it still doesnt work.

Any ideas why this is happening?

Be easier to guess if you had the exact error message.

[tachu]

Ok, in the XAMPP Control Panel, I press the start button on MySQL, and it starts, but after about 3 seconds, it stops automatically. When installing, it said something like "MySQL service could not be installed because port 1336 is blocked." (that's not the exact port number, just from what I remember). Ok so then I tried running the mysql\mysql_installservice and it says "System eror 1067 has ocurred. The Process terminated unexpectedly."

[tachu]

Ok yea in phpMyAdmin it also tells me:

#1130 - Host 'localhost' is not allowed to connect to this MySQL server

[taustin]

Is there a port "taken" or "blocked"? They are different, and have different causes, and different solutions.

It isn't helpful to know that the error message is "like." What is the exact text of the error message?

[tachu]

Forget it, I was able to fix it. I reinstalled the whole xampp again. Apparently there was an error in the pervious installation.

Thanks though.

[websensei]

XAMPP's portcheck.exe utility showed a connection to an http server even though there was none.

I just deleted and reloaded all XAMPP files. Now it works.

Websensei