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MySQL on Leopard OS X 10.5 PrefPane fixed!

Posted on 6/4/2008, 2:57 am, by Colin Charles, under MySQL.

A few months ago, I wrote about the issues you will face with installing MySQL on OS X 10.5, Leopard. I am pleased to inform everyone, that this problem has been fixed!

The bug in question, mysql#28854, clearly stated that the problem was with the PrefPane. On Valentine’s Day 2008, Alfredo Kojima (of Workbench fame) fixed the problem, and uploaded a new PrefPane, to ftp://ftp.mysql.com/pub/mysql/download/gui-tools/MySQL.prefPane-leopardfix.zip.

This fixes an incompatibility with the default shipped PrefPane. The new PrefPane also detects if the MySQL data directory (/usr/local/mysql/data) has the incorrect permissions (and if so, one should fix it).

So all Mac users, your first order of business is to download an appropriate MySQL from the MySQL 5.0 Downloads, and then download the new PrefPane.

Happy starting and stopping MySQL now, via System Preferences. Note that MySQL Enterprise 5.0.58 has already got this fix implemented. The current Community release is MySQL 5.0.51a, and does require the new PrefPane (and it will be fixed in the next release).

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10 Comments

  1. Journal of a Tech Enthusiast » Blog Archive » MySQL 5 on Mac OS X Leopard says:
    16/4/2008 at 10:37 am

    […] MySQL on Leopard OS X 10.5 PrefPane fixed! […]

  2. Derek Nugent says:
    20/4/2008 at 5:11 am

    Many thanks I’ve been stewing over that for a few days!

  3. L2 says:
    20/4/2008 at 11:42 am

    Thanks for sharing this info. It really helped me out tremendously!

  4. Anne says:
    30/6/2008 at 7:44 am

    Thank you, thank you, thank you! A much appreciated quick fix!

  5. ruth says:
    14/7/2008 at 2:46 pm

    THANK YOU! This solved a week of frustration.

  6. Asanka Dewage says:
    31/10/2008 at 7:21 pm

    Thank you for the update. Nice one.

  7. Alex says:
    25/2/2009 at 4:13 pm

    OMG Thank you so much. I just gave up and have been using the command line for the past year. ^_^

  8. MySQL 5 on Mac OS X Leopard | andygoh.net says:
    16/6/2009 at 10:41 pm

    […] MySQL on Leopard OS X 10.5 PrefPane fixed! […]

  9. zHome » [Mac] Apache, PHP und MySQL says:
    24/6/2009 at 5:18 am

    […] Um MySQL nun zu starten gibt es derzeit 2 Möglichkeiten. Die eine wäre sich ein weiteres Preference Pane zu installieren und mit diesem dann den MySQL Dienst zu starten und zu stoppen. Die zweite […]

  10. L2 says:
    6/10/2009 at 12:19 am

    Thanks for sharing this info. It really helped me out tremendously!

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