On Oct 24, 2018, at 15:25, Murray Eisenberg wrote:
> Starting MySQL
> . ERROR! The server quit without updating PID file
> (/Users/me/Databases/mysql/data/mysql.pid).
>
This is probably not a MacPorts-specific problem; you should search the
Internet. I did, and one result suggested that this error can occur if the
server is already running. Another suggested looking at the permissions of the
directory.
It is curious that it is trying to update a pid file in your data directory
when your cnf file appear to have told it to put it somewhere else, but I'm not
sure if that's relevant. It might be, if the data directory and the place where
the cnf file says to put the pid file have different permissions.
