mysql process won't die on mac
I have a problem in the setup of mysql using homebrew and so I decided to uninstall and start with a clean slate. Following the answer here I try to kill the process by
- Getting the process id through:
ps -ax | grep mysql - Using
kill -9 PIDto kill the process
My problem is that the PID keeps changing, even if I didn't run the kill command. As an example, here's the result from running ps -ax | grep mysql 3 times consecutively:
➜ ~ ps -ax | grep mysql@5.7 7251 ttys000 0:00.00 grep --color=auto --exclude-dir=.bzr --exclude-dir=CVS --exclude-dir=.git --exclude-dir=.hg --exclude-dir=.svn --exclude-dir=.idea --exclude-dir=.tox mysql@5.7
➜ ~ ps -ax | grep mysql@5.7 7257 ttys000 0:00.00 grep --color=auto --exclude-dir=.bzr --exclude-dir=CVS --exclude-dir=.git --exclude-dir=.hg --exclude-dir=.svn --exclude-dir=.idea --exclude-dir=.tox mysql@5.7
➜ ~ ps -ax | grep mysql@5.7 7263 ttys000 0:00.00 grep --color=auto --exclude-dir=.bzr --exclude-dir=CVS --exclude-dir=.git --exclude-dir=.hg --exclude-dir=.svn --exclude-dir=.idea --exclude-dir=.tox mysql@5.7Among the million things I tried, I
launchctl unload -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/**file_name_containing_mysql**and then deleted this file altogether- Another suggestion I found online was running
sudo launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.oracle.oss.mysql.mysqld.plist(in my case this is the only process under LaunchDaemons that had mysql in it). The result was:
/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.oracle.oss.mysql.mysqld.plist: Could not find specified service Unload failed: 113: Could not find specified service
One interesting thing also was a suggestion to stop the service of brew using sudo. Tried this as well:
sudo brew services stop mysql@5.7
Stopping `mysql@5.7`... (might take a while)
==> Successfully stopped `mysql@5.7` (label: homebrew.mxcl.mysql@5.7)The magical thing is that I got this AFTER UNINSTALLING MYSQL@5.7. Yeah you read this right.
And after all this, running ps -ax | grep mysql still shows mysql process running.
So in short what I'm trying to do is, kill all mysql processes. What have I not done that kill this for good?
1 Answer
I'll leave the answer to this here, in case someone falls upon this and learns a lesson that would save some precious hours.
➜ ~ ps -ax | grep mysql@5.7 7251 ttys000 0:00.00 grep --color=auto --exclude-dir=.bzr --exclude-dir=CVS --exclude-dir=.git --exclude-dir=.hg --exclude-dir=.svn --exclude-dir=.idea --exclude-dir=.tox mysql@5.7The result of this ps, is not actually a process. It probably is the process of grepping but nothing more. I spent so much time trying to kill something that was already dead. But what do you say, learning never comes easy!
