royster wrote:yo mates. iv been trying to find the answer to this newbie question before i posted it , i recently installed xampp for mac (running leopard) and when im trying to "start" MySql - it says : "can not start while another mysql server is running. please turn it off and try again" .
well, apparently there is another thing running. but i have no idea what or what can cause this.
any simple solution ?
I'm having the same problem - I DL'd the MySQL preferences pane, it tells me mySQL is not running...
I opened a terminal window and ran this then rebooted: sudo rm -rf /Library/StartupItems/MySQLCOM/
Still, no luck. I get this error every time I click on the MySQL start button:
"Another mysql server is already running! XAMPP's MySQL can not start while another mysql server is running. Please turn it off and try again." Any help would be appreciated...
Thanks!
R-