title: mysql server won't stop
body: <p>So I have tried countless things to try to stop MySQL from running.</p>
  
  <p>I've tried to stop the process but it keeps giving me this error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Executing '/usr/local/mysql/support-files/mysql.server stop' 2013-12-23 21:08:29 - 
  Stop server: ERROR! MySQL server PID file could not 2013-12-23 21:08:29 - 
  Stop server: be found!
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><a href="http://imageshack.us/a/img69/5515/dr1k.png" rel="nofollow">Here's a screenshot.</a></p>
  
  <p>I've also tried the following:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Force Quitting</li>
  <li>Activity Monitor and Force Quitting the process</li>
  <li>Using the CLI / Terminal to Stop Process using:
  <ul>
  <li>killall -KILL Finder</li>
  <li>killall -KILL Dock</li>
  <li>killall -KILL SystemUIServer</li>
  <li>killall -9 mysqld</li>
  </ul></li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>result from last command:</p>
  
  <pre><code>~❯killall -9 mysqld
  Password:
  kill: kill 11963 failed: operation not permitted
  ~❯   
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and it still hasn't stopped running... unfortunately. I tried double checking with both the system preferences view as well as the mySQL workbench view. The system preferences says it's running. No response when I click stop. When I go to the workbench it says off and without me clicking "start" it just turns on.</p>
  
  <p>So then I tried killing it and the results were as follows. Still hasn't stopped.. ugh..
  (everything between the underscores below represents spacing)</p>
  
  <pre><code>~❯ps -A | grep mysql
  11963 ?? _ _ _ _ . _ 0:01.27 --user=_mysql
  14635 ttys000 _ _. _ 0:00:00 grep mysql
  ~❯sudo kill 11963
  Password:
  ~❯
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I then tried uninstalling all the MySQL files using the following commands:</p>
  
  <pre><code>- sudo rm /usr/local/mysql
  - sudo rm -rf /usr/local/mysql*
  - sudo rm -rf /Library/StartupItems/MySQLCOM
  - sudo rm -rf /Library/PreferencePanes/MySQL*
  - vim /etc/hostconfig and removed the line MYSQLCOM=-YES-
  - rm -rf ~/Library/PreferencePanes/MySQL*
  - sudo rm -rf /Library/Receipts/mysql*
  - sudo rm -rf /Library/Receipts/MySQL*
  - sudo rm -rf /var/db/receipts/com.mysql.*
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>All to no avail.  Finally I thought if I maybe looked up all the files that had mysql in them and deleted the ones I was pretty sure were the right ones maybe this would work. So I used:</p>
  
  <pre><code>- sudo find / | grep -i mysql
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Which showed all the files but still no luck.</p>
  
  <p>Could anybody please help me figure this out?  I feel like I'm way overdoing this.</p>