"XAMPP: Couldn't start MySQL" on Ubuntu 64bit

Question

I installed LAMPP with these instructions, but phpmadmin didn't work so i tried to uninstall and then install it again and it still doesn't work. When I'm trying to turn it on i get these errors.

jeggy@jeggy-12:~/Niðurtøkur$ sudo /opt/lampp/lampp start
Starting XAMPP for Linux 1.8.1...
XAMPP: Another web server daemon is already running.
XAMPP: Starting MySQL...
XAMPP: Couldn't start MySQL!
XAMPP: Another FTP daemon is already running.
XAMPP for Linux started.
jeggy@jeggy-12:~/Niðurtøkur$ 

I have tried

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 stop

and

sudo /usr/sbin/apache2ctl stop

And none of them work


When i go to localhost/phpmyadmin/ i get this error:

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EDIT: Now i get this error

jeggy@jeggy-12:~/Niðurtøkur/nspire$ sudo /opt/lampp/lampp start
Starting XAMPP for Linux 1.8.1...
XAMPP: Starting Apache...
XAMPP: Starting MySQL...
XAMPP: Couldn't start MySQL!
XAMPP: Starting ProFTPD...
XAMPP for Linux started.

Solution

After being googling for days i found this and it works great!

What i did was

sudo chmod 755 /opt/lampp/etc/my.cnf
sudo chmod 777 /opt/lampp/var/mysql -R
sudo /opt/lampp/lampp restart

and now it works

Comments

[Rinzwind]

"XAMPP: Another web server daemon is already running." Is there another web server running? If so ... kill it.

[Jeggy]

i know that, but i don't know how to kill it. What i think it can be is that it was on while i deleted it and now when i installed it again it says another already is on

[Rinzwind]

ps -ef|grep {whatyouwanttofind}, find the PID, and do a kill -9 {pid}. {whatyouwanttofind} is something like mysql or xampp.

[David Foerster]

Ughh, please don't use XAMPP on Linux. We have a perfectly fine LAMPP stack in the package repositories: trivial, single-command installation, much better system integration (incl. better file access permission management), and completely automated (security) updates.

[David Foerster]

Making a whole directory structure writeable and executable to everyone is a terrible idea.