title: MySQL Database won't start in XAMPP Manager-osx
body: <p>I downloaded XAMPP about a month ago and it was working just fine. Today I installed a voice recognition software and then restarted my computer. Ever since, MySQL won't start in my manager-osx application. It doesn't throw me an in the application log. This is what it says:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Stopping all servers...
  Stopping Apache Web Server...
  /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/apache2/scripts/ctl.sh : httpd stopped
  Stopping ProFTPD...
  Checking syntax of configuration file
  /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/proftpd/scripts/ctl.sh : proftpd stopped
  Restarting all servers...
  Starting MySQL Database...
  
  Starting Apache Web Server...
  /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/apache2/scripts/ctl.sh : httpd started
  Starting ProFTPD...
  Checking syntax of configuration file
  /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/proftpd/scripts/ctl.sh : proftpd started
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Both my ProFTPD and my Apache Web Server are running. MySQL isn't.
  When I go to phpmyadmin, it throws me this error message.</p>
  
  <pre><code>#2002 - No such file or directory
  The server is not responding (or the local server's socket is not correctly configured).
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Please help me. I have no idea what to do.</p>
  
  <p>UPDATE: </p>
  
  <p>After looking around the internet a bit, I found a similar problem a user had with MAMP, another user recommended killing the mysql process, what ever that means. Could this be a fix to my problem?</p>
  
  <p>UPDATE 2: </p>
  
  <p>I found the answer to my problem but I can't answer it yet. So here's the answer:</p>
  
  <p>1) Open terminal and type</p>
  
  <pre><code>sudo su
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and then put in  your password</p>
  
  <p>2) Then type </p>
  
  <pre><code>ps aux | grep mysql
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>(just copy and paste this)</p>
  
  <p>3) You will need to get the process id of mysql. There should be number near the top, something like 739 or 8827</p>
  
  <p>4) Kill the process using</p>
  
  <pre><code>kill -9 {process id}
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>this should look something like this: kill -9 739</p>
  
  <p>5) Restart MySQL in manager-osx</p>