Starting MySQL after Leopard upgrade

After upgrading to Leopard, the MySQL preferences pane would not start the database.

Starting mysql from a terminal

$ cd /usr/local/mysql/bin
$ sudo -b ./mysqld_safe


Stop mysql

$ sudo mysqladmin shutdown


Thank you sir, may I have another

Leopard doesn’t come with Java 6. @#$%. I should have known better, but I pre-ordered Leopard anyway. I really want Java 6, since I’m tired of developing in virtual machine.

This is frustrating since Apple includes the latest Ruby, Rails, Python etc. Whatever. I had those installed with Tiger. Unfortunately only Apple provides Java for OS X. [bitching and griping deleted --ed]

I sure hope there’s a Java 6 download on ADC soon.