10.6.5 killed my MYSQL server in Mac OS X Server

MrHoffman shares the answer:

Try re-downloading and re-loading the 10.6.5 combo update, as a potential brute-force fix.

See if /etc/my.cnf and any local my.cnf you might have in /var/mysql/ looks sane.

The usual trigger is a skewed version between the files here, though that would be unexpected. (I’ll assume that MAMP or a different download of MySQL has not been manually installed on the box.)

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