When upgrading MySQL on OS X (anno domini 2010), I learned the hard way that the “data” folder containing your databases and tables does not get moved. Look into /usr/local; you will probably have the old mysql-* folder there containing just the “data” folder. /usr/local/mysql is a symlink to the current MySQL installation, so move its data folder elsewhere, and put the old one in there.
It’s been a while since I did web development on my Mac, and MySQL ceased to work. Could be related to that one time that I accidentally removed a bunch of dot-files from my home directory, could be related to MySQL upgrade. In any case, it no longer worked.
What I figured out was that the /var/mysql/mysql.sock UNIX domain socket was no longer generated. The /var/mysql folder was missing. When just creating it and assigning it to user _mysql (chown _mysql /var/mysql) did not help, I knew something was wrong with configuration.
MySQL tries to read configuration from /etc/my.cnf. To get its UNIX domain socket where PHP expects it, this needs to be contained in this configuration file:
[client]
port = 3306
socket = /var/mysql/mysql.sock
[mysqld]
port = 3306
basedir = /usr/local/mysql/
socket = /var/mysql/mysql.sock
; datadir = /servers/raiddrive/databases/
Please read the manual for details, and this is not administration advice; I’m not sure if this opens security holes, but I only use MySQL for development purposes. (Because you should know better than letting programmers near mission critical production servers.)
Things suddenly broke, without installing web-server-related stuff, without touching apache config?
It’s probably permissions.
No really, you checked out permissions, and it looks ok. Really, “Sites” (or “public_html”) looks ok. However, the entire path needs to be fixed.
Check if each directory in full path to the file you want to serve contains at least executable permission for the web group, or “other” group. That is, on Mac this helped me:
chmod o+x /Users
chmod o+x /Users/ivucica
chmod 755 /Users/ivucica/Sites
What went wrong for me? I suspect Mac OS X 10.6’s disk check, or perhaps one other disk utility I recently used, messed up the executable permission flag of /Users/ivucica. I have no other explanation.
This tip would probably help under GNU/Linux too.
Getting the following error on Steam Mac when attempting to accept gift by clicking on link in the email?
Unable to connect to HTTP Proxy. Your proxy may be misconfigured or offline. -336
Unable to connect to HTTP Proxy. Your proxy may be misconfigured or offline.
Woah! But you don’t use a proxy, do you? Solution is simple. For all your Internet connections (just to be safe), in System Preferences, disable Auto Proxy Discovery. Click on screenshots to enlarge.
This worked for me, but your mileage may vary. Now, let’s report this on the Steam Mac forum…
Looks like the drivers for Cirrus Logic audio card in unibody Macbook from late 2009 (also known as MacBook 6,1) are a bit broken. This is on Windows XP. I’m running Boot Camp 3.0 because 3.1’s installer crashes. Anyways, microphone in Steam and Steam edition of Torchlight just didn’t work. From certain posts on Apple forums, this seems to affect other software — Windows Live Messenger, et al.
Edit May 7th 2010:
After using these patches for some time in L4D2 and elsewhere, I conclude that one or both of the fixed drivers are breaking stereo support, to a certain extent. That is, apparently the “rear” speaker or even the microphone becomes the “left” speaker. YMMV.