On Wed, 2014-10-22 at 13:00 +1100, Roger wrote: > I've been using Linuxen, mainly Fedora, for many years so am familiar > with Nix command line. > Recently I was provided a new Apple Macbook Pro to be used to develop > specific apps for the App store. > > Following a tutorial on computersnyou.com which seems most > comprehensive, installed mysql which worked fine then on Sunday night > upgraded to the new Yosemite OS, mysql died. > > I downloaded the .dmg again and reinstalled following the above, hoping > to correct it's config files but now mysql-5.6.20-osx10.8-x86_64 is very > difficult to start. > /usr/local/mysql is in the PATH. > Error is: ERROR 2002 Can't connect to local MYSQL through socket > '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2) > From installation instructions I did ln -s /tmp/mysql.sock > /private/var/mysql/mysql.sock which is no help. > I removed the link and reinstated. Checked that mysql.sock exists. > > /usr/local/mysql/support-files/mysql.server start starts mysql but I > cannot get it to start on boot. > I thought to completely remove mysql and it's dependencies then install > from scratch but there seems to be no way that I can find to delete > mysql file system. I miss yum. Fortunately I can use my old faithful > Linux desktop, Ahh! Home safe. > > I searched for local/Vic Apple User group similar to this LUV forum to > ask, with no luck. > AUSOM seems to be a PC Usergroup with some Apple events. > > Can someone please advise what's wrong and how to fix, hopefully without > reinstalling. And if there is an apple forum similar to LUV or > Community for Fedora Users > Thanks in advance > Roger Don't know what an LUV is, but in any case this seems very specific to Yosemite, which has nothing to do with Linux (MacOS is based on BSD). I suggest you look for Yosemite-specific help on the Apple forums. poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
