MySQL Bugs: #19577: starting or stopping mysql from the system preferences pane hangs.

Bug #19577	starting or stopping mysql from the system preferences pane hangs.
Submitted:	6 May 2006 7:57	Modified:	7 Dec 2016 16:06
Reporter:	eli morris	Email Updates:
Status:	Unsupported	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Server: Installing	Severity:	S3 (Non-critical)
Version:	5.0.21	OS:	Any (10.4.6)
Assigned to:		CPU Architecture:	Any

Description:
I first intalled 4.1.18 on my powerpc mac. Then later I tried 5.0.21 with the same result. Whenever I try to start, stop, or check or unckeck the "automatically start mysql on starup", system preferences asks for my password, and then when I click OK, I get the spinning beachball forever.
I'll not that I installed the startup item and I can start mysql and stop it from the command line without a problem.

How to repeat:
Open system preferences, click on mysql, click on any of the buttons, enter password, then watch the beachball spin forever.

Hi!

Thanks for your bug report.

I was able to reproduce this using 5.0.21 under 10.4.4

I just ran into this too, and bug 19326 is a dupe of this one.

I'm seeing exactly the same thing in 5.0.22 on OS X Intel. It eats about
80% CPU and my machine gets very hot!

I checked in console and It's clearly stuck in a loop running authexec saying
that it's executing MySQL.prefpane/contents/Resources/mahelper

Starting/stopping the server from a CLI works fine.

Looks like a prefpane bug.

Posted by developer:
 
This relates to EOL (no longer supported) versions of MySQL Server. Furthermore, both Mac OS and the MySQL packaging on Mac OS have come a long way since this was submitted. Thus closing.