macbook pro

I did a clean install on my Macbook Pro this morning, part of the clean install means, re-downloading things like MySQL.

When I installed it, I noticed that the pref-pane wouldn’t start MySQL. Even when it asked for my admin password.

I thought maybe it was a boot up issue, so I rebooted, and got an error telling me that the permissions for the start up item were in secure.

Here’s what I did to debug/fix the problem.

The first thing you need to know about Mac OS.X Snow Leopard all Mac’s and Macbook Pro’s is that this hardware is 64 bit capable.

This may not mean you are running a 64 bit kernel, it simply means that the operating system is capable of executing x86 64bit executables.

We won’t go into the details of kernel architecture, you can read more about that here.