Fatal error: Please read "Security" section of the manual to find out how to run mysqld as root
I'm using OS X (Yosemite) and this error happened to me when I upgraded from Mavericks to Yosemite. It was solved by using this command
sudo /usr/local/mysql/support-files/mysql.server start
The MySQL daemon should not be executed as the system user root
which (normally) do not has any restrictions.
According to your cli, I suppose you wanted to execute the initscript instead:
sudo /etc/init.d/mysql stop
Another way would be to use the mysqladmin tool (note, root
is the MySQL root user here, not the system root
user):
/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqladmin --port=8889 -u root shutdown
you might try this if you logged in with root:
mysqld --user=root