I have freshly installed xampp-linux-1.8.1 on my Ubuntu 12.04 (Mint 13 maya) Operating system. When run lampp, I get :
/opt/lampp/lampp start
Starting XAMPP for Linux 1.8.1...
XAMPP: XAMPP-Apache is already running.
XAMPP: Another MySQL daemon is already running.
XAMPP: XAMPP-ProFTPD is already running.
XAMPP for Linux started.
In the : localhost/xampp/ MySQL DataBase is Deactivated !!!
ps -aux | grep 'mysql'
Warning: bad ps syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See http://procps.sf.net/faq.html mysql 3159 0.0 0.9 316264 31880 ? Ssl 16:48 0:00 /usr/sbin/mysqld
root 4745 0.0 0.0 4648 840 pts/5 S+ 17:02 0:00 grep --color=auto mysql
When I tried to stop /usr/sbin/mysqld but it can't be stopped with this command !!!
/usr/sbin/mysqld stop
Please I need Help, Thanks.
i've resolved the issue in this way:
then stop other mysqld running with:
Also had this issue, after troubleshooting for almost 2 hours I found that it was because of other Apache and MySQL packages also running on my system. Removed all Apache and MySQL packages and reinstalled XAMPP again. Success.