homebrew - After MySQL install via Brew, I get the error - The server quit without updating PID file

Question

Ok, I've searched all over and have spent quite a bit of my time installing, uninstalling, trying various option but without success.

I'm on Mac OS X Lion (10.7.3) and am trying to setup a Python, MySQL.

I successfully installed Python and MySQL via HomeBrew. Python works great.

After MySQL Installation, I followed the first 2 steps - unset and the mysql_install_db commands.

Now, when I try to start mysql "mysql.server start", I get the following error

ERROR! The server quit without updating PID file (/usr/local/var/mysql/Brajeshwar.local.pid).

• Brajeshwar is my username on my machine.

Answer 1

I found that it was a permissions issue with the mysql folder.

chmod -R 777 /usr/local/var/mysql/ 

solved it for me.