Define the default installation path by browsing to it.
Define an installation area on your system by clicking Add Install Area.
The MWAppLaunch preference pane appears in the Other area. After doing the two steps above, the preference pane was working again. Open the preference pane by clicking the apple logo in the upper left corner of the desktop. I did change some permissions to _mysql:wheel here and there as frequently suggested, but I'm not sure that mattered in my case. Apparently specifying the pid-file location in the rver file doesn't work. I discovered this after trying to stop the server in MySQLWorkbench and it throwing "PID file not found!" error messages. (This is easy to do within MySQLWorkbench.)
I then loaded MySQL time zone tables from Mac OS time zone files: mysql_tzinfo_to_sql /usr/share/zoneinfo | mysql -u root -password="YOUR_PASSWORD_HERE" mysql Sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/.ist Start server using plist file (check your plist path/name!): The issue for me was the time zone tables AND Stephen's answers.Įdit /usr/local/mysql/support-files/rver Old stack overflow post! The world has changed a great deal, and I wanted to share my solution to this problem. I tried Jamie Wong's and carloandaya's suggestions, both did not work. I tried the latest MySQL 5.5.20 on OS X 10.6.8 and it's still broken - same behavior, it just hangs (had to force quit). There are no old versions of MySQL on this machine.įollow-up: Well it's now January 2012 so I figure I'd check to see if this has been fixed.
I'm doing this on a Macbook Pro (Intel) running OS X 10.6.3. Every time the MySQL Preference Pane just hangs. I'm using the standard installation location, nothing out of the ordinary. I have tried reinstalling MySQL and the Preference Pane. The same thing happens if I toggle 'Automatically Start MySQL Server on Startup'. It runs at about 50 CPU forever, eventually I have for force quit System Preferences.
Note that I have no problem starting MySQL from the command line: sudo /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld_safe The problem is, whenever I attempt to start/stop MySQL from the Preference Pane, System Preferences just hangs. Basically the MySQL Preference Pane is not functional. The same thing happens if I toggle "Automatically Start MySQL Server on Startup". It runs at about 50% CPU forever, eventually I have for force quit System Preferences. The problem is, whenever I attempt to start/stop MySQL from the Preference Pane, System Preferences just hangs. I also installed MySQL.prefPane and MySQLStartupItem.pkg. I downloaded and installed MySQL 5.1.47 for OS X 10.6 using the DMG archive: mysql-5.1.47-osx10.6-x86_64.dmg