Mysql server on MAMP won't start

Question

My Mysql server on MAMP won't start. This is the error:

161224 00:15:00 mysqld_safe Logging to '/Applications/MAMP/logs/mysql_error_log.err'. 161224 00:15:00 mysqld_safe Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /Applications/MAMP/db/mysql56 161224 00:15:01 mysqld_safe mysqld from pid file /Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/mysql.pid ended

I already tried the following commands:

> ps aux | grep mysql > lsof -i > sudo killall -9 mysqld 

But the server is still not working.

Help ?

Answer 1

Remove the files ib_logfileN (N being the number) from the MAMP/db/mysql56 folder.

Then restart MAMP.

Should Work!!

Edit: If the above step doesn't work completely, please remove the ibdata<n> file as well, based on the comments.