Comments on: Uninstalling MySQL on Mac OS X Leopard

By: Little Fish

Little Fish — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:14:11 +0000

Thanks a lot Rob, saved me lots of time!

By: Jonathan Morgan

Jonathan Morgan — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:13:33 +0000

Actually forget my last post - I opened it in Finder instead of my text editor and it deleted no problem

By: Jonathan Morgan

Jonathan Morgan — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:09:34 +0000

I've followed these instructions, but for some reason I have a directory: usr/local/mysql-5.5.0-m2-osx10.6-x86 which has multiple (more than 30) identical, empty directories within it.

I've tried deleting it using your:
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/mysql*
command, but it will not delete...

At the moment I can't re-install MySql because of this folder.

Any tips on how I can get around this?

Thanks!

By: MJ

MJ — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 16:25:44 +0000

Quick update.

Had a little help, and got it worked out.

By: MJ

MJ — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 15:27:36 +0000

Hi,

I downloaded Mac OS X 10.5 (x86, 64-bit), DMG Archive from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.0.html#macosx-dmg
and having a bit of a problem. Installation went fine, but when trying to start it, I get this:

Error
Could not startup MySQL server
Reason 255

Is there any chance that the version I downloaded, and/or its specific mirror was faulty? Double checked my comp display, and it's 32 bit. Should I have downloaded the 32 bit version?

Thank you.

By: Amir

Amir — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:45:29 +0000

add this one:
sudo rm -rf /var/db/receipts/com.mysql.*

By: Rob...

Rob... — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:08:17 +0000

Jake,

Read comment #37.

Regards,

Rob...

By: Jake

Jake — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:45:54 +0000

I have a problem with:
edit /etc/hostconfig and remove the line MYSQLCOM=-YES-
after i hit enter it says
-bash: edit: command not found

everything else works great
but because that one command doesn't work, it doesn't successfully uninstall mysql.
please heeelpppp

By: Bob

Bob — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:48:57 +0000

You might want to add the following two lines to the beginning of the process:
"# Back up all your databases ( just in case ;)"
"sudo kill `sudo cat /usr/local/mysql/data/${HOSTNAME}.pid`"

This will gracefully kill mysqld if it is running. "ps -u mysql" should display a process if it is running.

By: Dirk

Dirk — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:33:28 +0000

Hi all,

I've found the reason in an other blog.

If you've installed MySQL 5.4.1 (or higher) you will also have to remove any *mysql* preference files from here:

/private/var/db/receipts/

...as well as any other receipts folder mentioned above.