Bug #19326 Mac OS X control panel freezes after install
Submitted: 25 Apr 2006 8:27 Modified: 31 Mar 2014 9:11
Reporter: Juha-Mikko Ahonen Email Updates:
Status: Closed Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server Severity:S2 (Serious)
Version:5.0.19 max OS:MacOS (Mac OS X)
Assigned to: Sveta Smirnova CPU Architecture:Any

[25 Apr 2006 8:27] Juha-Mikko Ahonen 
Description:
After installing the server on OS X 10.4 laptop with the control panel plugin, I opened the panel plugin and clicked on start server. The whole Mac settings application froze. After killing the control panel, I issued the command in the readme file, and the server came up.

How to repeat:
I haven't tried it again.
[5 Jun 2006 2:25] Marcus Bointon 
Yup. 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
[9 Sep 2006 15:35] Julien Silland 
I'd like to point out that I just faced the exact same problem with the latest release (5.0.24a) on a MacBook Pro. No idea what is the cause and how to fix it though.
[27 Jan 2007 17:47] Arnaud Lavrard 
With filevault, the encrypted image is mounted as nosuid, which means that if you installed the prefpane in your home folder, the suid (-rwsr-sr-x) mahelper binary cannot be run.. I moved the prefpane in /Library/PreferencePanes/ and it works fine.
[10 Oct 2007 19:04] Sveta Smirnova 
Thank you for the report.

Please try with new version 5.0.45. I haven't seen such a problem since version 5.0.27
[11 Nov 2007 0:00] Bugs System 
No feedback was provided for this bug for over a month, so it is
being suspended automatically. If you are able to provide the
information that was originally requested, please do so and change
the status of the bug back to "Open".
[31 Mar 2014 9:11] Yngve Svendsen 
No feedback in a long time. Also, 5.0 is an obsolete version of MySQL Server.