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Timothy Boland
18,237 PointsWhen I try to stop the server, I get the following error: Stop server: ERROR! MySQL server PID file could not be found
Has anyone taking this course had the same problem. I cant find this .pid file that its looking for. According to Spotlight on my mac there are no .pid files. Here is the whole log:
2016-06-10 00:40:19 - Stopping server... 2016-06-10 00:40:19 - Executing '/usr/local/mysql/support-files/mysql.server stop' 2016-06-10 00:40:19 - Stop server: ERROR! MySQL server PID file could not be found!
2016-06-10 00:40:19 - Stop server: 2016-06-10 00:40:19 - Server stop done. 2016-06-10 00:40:19 - Checking server status... 2016-06-10 00:40:19 - MySQL server is currently running 2016-06-10 00:40:19 - Checking server status... 2016-06-10 00:40:19 - MySQL server is currently running 2016-06-10 00:40:32 - Checking server status... 2016-06-10 00:40:32 - MySQL server is currently running 2016-06-10 00:40:38 - Stopping server... 2016-06-10 00:40:38 - Executing '/usr/local/mysql/support-files/mysql.server stop' 2016-06-10 00:40:38 - Stop server: ERROR! MySQL server PID file could not be found!
2016-06-10 00:40:38 - Stop server: 2016-06-10 00:40:38 - Server stop done. 2016-06-10 00:40:38 - Checking server status... 2016-06-10 00:40:38 - MySQL server is currently running 2016-06-10 00:40:38 - Checking server status... 2016-06-10 00:40:38 - MySQL server is currently running