I recently ran into an issue where my MySQL Database instance would fail to start when I went to start it from the XAMPP Application Manager. There weren’t any errors in the application log so I wasn’t able to troubleshoot from there.
What’s this fix?
Open up your Terminal and type $sudo killall mysqldb. Terminal will then prompt you for your password.
That’s it!
Once you do this, you should be able to return to XAMPP Application Manager, hit start for MySQL Database and everything should be good to go.
If that doesnt work for you, then you might have to start your database from the terminal by typing…
sudo /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/bin/mysql.server start
You’re welcome.