Forum LAMS for Tech-Heads - General Forum: Re: Re: Mac OS X installer out!

By: sue sugizaki

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Hi!

The same problem here...

Q1: What version of OS X are you using?
A1: OS10.4.11

Q2: Are you installing MySQL as shown in the video here?
A2: I did, but the prefPane fails to run; it just says, "Preference error, could not load mySQL"... seems to be a known problem, tho'.

http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=51264

Q3: What version of MySQL are you trying to install?
A3: mysql-5.1.46-osx10.4-i686

Posted by sue sugizaki

By: Ernie Ghiglione

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Hi Sue,

Little I can do on this one as this seems to be a bug with MySQL prefpane. But can you give this a go? http://goo.gl/9uUt

Perhaps that might work?

Thanks,

Ernie

Posted by Ernie Ghiglione

By: sue sugizaki

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Hi, again!

Now I've installed XAMPP and started mySQL, but still can't install LAMS.

Just saying, mySQL server is not running...

Posted by sue sugizaki

By: Ernie Ghiglione

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Hmmm... the Mac OS X installer performs to pre-installation tasks to make sure whether LAMS is installed:

1) That MySQL is installed by checking whether the file /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql exists.

2) That MySQL is working by checking that the /tmp/mysql.sock file exists (see the two pics).

So, if you are sure that MySQL is running (thru XAMPP and all), you can trick the installer by just creating the two files that the installer checks manually. It really be any file.

Try that and let me know please.

Thanks,

Ernie

Posted by Ernie Ghiglione