Reinstalling MySQL 5.x on macOS via Homebrew

reinstall.sh

brew remove mysql

brew cleanup

launchctl unload -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.mysql.mysqld.plist

rm ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.mysql.mysqld.plist

sudo rm -rf /usr/local/var/mysql

brew install mysql

unset TMPDIR

mysql_install_db --verbose --user=`whoami` --basedir="$(brew --prefix mysql)" --datadir=/usr/local/var/mysql --tmpdir=/tmp

mkdir -p ~/Library/LaunchAgents
cp /usr/local/Cellar/mysql/5.5.25a/homebrew.mxcl.mysql.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents/
launchctl load -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.mysql.plist


# Success! :-)

Looks like the script needs an update. I got the following error on macOS mojave.

reinstall-mysql.sh: line 16: mysql_install_db: command not found
cp: /usr/local/Cellar/mysql/5.5.25a/homebrew.mxcl.mysql.plist: No such file or directory

Looks like the script needs an update. I got the following error on macOS mojave.

reinstall-mysql.sh: line 16: mysql_install_db: command not found
cp: /usr/local/Cellar/mysql/5.5.25a/homebrew.mxcl.mysql.plist: No such file or directory

replace the mysql version number with the version number of your installation.
cp: /usr/local/Cellar/mysql/{version_number}/homebrew.mxcl.mysql.plist

Could it be that in M1 it is different?

Could it be that in M1 it is different?

Yep, it should be /opt/homebrew/Cellar instead of /usr/local/Cellar/ when Homebrew is running on Apple Silicon.

Ok Thanks @lucascaton

Hi @lucascaton , please, can you review script for actualization for macos Sonoma with M1 chip? Will be very glad.
I just ruined my brew mysql service and anything can`t repair it.

Because I am working on several projects, for some I use brew mysql, for some MAMP mysql server and some Docker. When I came back to brew mysql after some days, mysql not running: "ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2)"

@MikKuba, I'm having exactly the same issue right now (with MySQL 8) 😞

@MikKuba @lucascaton have you found a solution?

Hi @lucascaton , please, can you review script for actualization for macos Sonoma with M1 chip? Will be very glad. I just ruined my brew mysql service and anything can`t repair it.

Because I am working on several projects, for some I use brew mysql, for some MAMP mysql server and some Docker. When I came back to brew mysql after some days, mysql not running: "ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2)"

My solution is to little change /etc/my.cnf. If I am using MAMP, I have to comment these rows:

[mysqld]
#socket = /tmp/mysql.sock
#datadir = /opt/homebrew/var/mysql
#tmpdir = /tmp

and MAMP is running.

To start mysql via brew, I have to uncomment rows above.
After that I have to delete files in /opt/homebrew/var/mysql/ib_logfile0 and ib_logfile1

And now its only to restart brew mysql and everything running fine.

@MikKuba, @giovannievway, I had to uninstall it, delete all the data, and re-install it to get it working again 🙂

brew uninstall [email protected]
rm -rf /opt/homebrew/var/mysql
brew install [email protected]

Then, to check, I ran brew services list:

Name          Status     User       File
[email protected]     started    [myuser]   ~/Library/LaunchAgents/[email protected]
# (others)

Hope this solves the issue for you too 🍀

I am using M3.
But I have this error: ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2)

Can you help me with that?

@hendisantika, it seems your MySQL isn't running.

• What's the output of brew services list?
• What's the output when you start MySQL?
• What steps have you tried so far? Maybe one listed above?

What's the output of brew services list?

brew services list

Name          Status   User         File
alloy         none
colima        error  1 hendisantika ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.colima.plist
consul        started  hendisantika ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.consul.plist
grafana-agent none
mysql         started  hendisantika ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.mysql.plist
php           none
podman        none
postgresql@17 started  hendisantika ~/Library/LaunchAgents/[email protected]
redis         started  hendisantika ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.redis.plist
unbound       none
vault         none

What's the output when you start MySQL?

hendisantika@Hendis-MacBook-Pro ~ % mysql -u root
ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (38)

What steps have you tried so far? Maybe one listed above?

1. Remove mysql
2. Reinstall MySQL
3. Still error