macos - can't start MySql in Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard

Question

I've googled this and could'nt find anything new and useful for Apple's new OS SnowLeopard. I wonder if this is my mistake or I do need to do something?

this is what I did:

Downloaded from mysql site: http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.1.html#macosx-dmg I choose : Mac OS X 10.5 (x86_64)

I run all the packages and installed all of them. So now I certainly have mysql in

/usr/local/mysql/

But when trying to start it from preferences panel, it is always STOPPED. When I try to do (in the terminal):

/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql

I got :

-bash: /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql: Bad CPU type in executable

What is wrong here? Any help would be very appreciated. Thanks

Answer 1

Maybe this answer helps:

mysql5.58 unstart server in mac os 10.6.5

I just installed MySQL 5.5.8 (mysql-5.5.8-osx10.6-x86_64.dmg) on Mac os X 10.6.5 and also had the problem that MySQL was not starting.

After reading this post: http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?11,399397,399606#msg-399606 and editing the file as suggested everything started working.

I also did

sudo chown -R root:wheel /Library/StartupItems/MySQLCOM

after reading https://discussions.apple.com/message/12820394 since when restarting my Mac OSx 10.6.6 it kept on asking something about not enough privileges. The line above solved that issue.

Now everything is working.