MySQL won't run when i am using XAMPP server

Question

This is the error log for the MySQL when I run it on XAMPP. I don't know how to fix it, it's always stuck on attempting to start MySQL service..

I tried changing the port but the result is still the same. also tried re-installing but the problem is still the same

thank you in advance.the error i get is as follows

    2015-11-10 15:26:56 10fc InnoDB: Warning: Using innodb_additional_mem_pool_size is DEPRECATED. This option may be removed in future releases, together with the option innodb_use_sys_malloc and with the InnoDB's internal memory allocator.
    2015-11-10 15:26:56 4348 [Note] InnoDB: Using mutexes to ref count buffer pool pages
    2015-11-10 15:26:56 4348 [Note] InnoDB: The InnoDB memory heap is disabled
    2015-11-10 15:26:56 4348 [Note] InnoDB: Mutexes and rw_locks use Windows interlocked functions
    2015-11-10 15:26:56 4348 [Note] InnoDB: Memory barrier is not used
    2015-11-10 15:26:56 4348 [Note] InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.3
    2015-11-10 15:26:56 4348 [Note] InnoDB: Not using CPU crc32 instructions
    2015-11-10 15:26:56 4348 [Note] InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, size = 16.0M
    2015-11-10 15:26:56 4348 [Note] InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool
    2015-11-10 15:26:56 4348 [Note] InnoDB: Highest supported file format is Barracuda.
    2015-11-10 15:26:57 4348 [Note] InnoDB: 128 rollback segment(s) are active.
    2015-11-10 15:26:57 4348 [Note] InnoDB: Waiting for purge to start
    2015-11-10 15:26:57 4348 [Note] InnoDB:  Percona XtraDB (http://www.percona.com) 5.6.26-74.0 started; log sequence number 1835027
    2015-11-10 15:26:57 6140 [Note] InnoDB: Dumping buffer pool(s) not yet started
    2015-11-10 15:26:57 4348 [Note] Plugin 'FEEDBACK' is disabled.
    2015-11-10 15:26:57 4348 [Note] Server socket created on IP: '::'.
    2015-11-10 15:26:57 4348 [Note] Event Scheduler: Loaded 0 events
    2015-11-10 15:26:57 4348 [Note] C:\xampp\mysql\bin\mysqld.exe: ready for connections.
    Version: '10.1.8-MariaDB'  socket: ''  port: 3306  mariadb.org binary distribution
    2015-11-10 15:27:11 5152 [Note] C:\xampp\mysql\bin\mysqld.exe: Normal shutdown

    2015-11-10 15:27:11 5152 [Note] Event Scheduler: Purging the queue. 0 events
    2015-11-10 15:27:11 5732 [Note] InnoDB: FTS optimize thread exiting.
    2015-11-10 15:27:11 5152 [Note] InnoDB: Starting shutdown...
    2015-11-10 15:27:13 5152 [Note] InnoDB: Shutdown completed; log sequence number 1835037
    2015-11-10 15:27:13 5152 [Note] C:\xampp\mysql\bin\mysqld.exe: Shutdown complete

and this are the config for mySQL. Note: I didn't make any changes in it.

# Example MySQL config file for small systems.
#
# This is for a system with little memory (<= 64M) where MySQL is only used
# from time to time and it's important that the mysqld daemon
# doesn't use much resources.
#
# You can copy this file to
# C:/xampp/mysql/bin/my.cnf to set global options,
# mysql-data-dir/my.cnf to set server-specific options (in this
# installation this directory is C:/xampp/mysql/data) or
# ~/.my.cnf to set user-specific options.
#
# In this file, you can use all long options that a program supports.
# If you want to know which options a program supports, run the program
# with the "--help" option.

# The following options will be passed to all MySQL clients
[client] 
# password       = your_password 
port            = 3306 
socket          = "C:/xampp/mysql/mysql.sock"


# Here follows entries for some specific programs 

# The MySQL server
[mysqld]
port= 3306
socket = "C:/xampp/mysql/mysql.sock"
basedir = "C:/xampp/mysql" 
tmpdir = "C:/xampp/tmp" 
datadir = "C:/xampp/mysql/data"
pid_file = "mysql.pid"
# enable-named-pipe
key_buffer = 16M
max_allowed_packet = 1M
sort_buffer_size = 512K
net_buffer_length = 8K
read_buffer_size = 256K
read_rnd_buffer_size = 512K
myisam_sort_buffer_size = 8M
log_error = "mysql_error.log"

# Change here for bind listening
# bind-address="127.0.0.1" 
# bind-address = ::1          # for ipv6

# Where do all the plugins live
plugin_dir = "C:/xampp/mysql/lib/plugin/" 

# Don't listen on a TCP/IP port at all. This can be a security enhancement,
# if all processes that need to connect to mysqld run on the same host.
# All interaction with mysqld must be made via Unix sockets or named pipes.
# Note that using this option without enabling named pipes on Windows
# (via the "enable-named-pipe" option) will render mysqld useless!
# 
# commented in by lampp security
#skip-networking
#skip-federated

# Replication Master Server (default)
# binary logging is required for replication
# log-bin deactivated by default since XAMPP 1.4.11
#log-bin=mysql-bin

# required unique id between 1 and 2^32 - 1
# defaults to 1 if master-host is not set
# but will not function as a master if omitted
server-id   = 1

# Replication Slave (comment out master section to use this)
#
# To configure this host as a replication slave, you can choose between
# two methods :
#
# 1) Use the CHANGE MASTER TO command (fully described in our manual) -
#    the syntax is:
#
#    CHANGE MASTER TO MASTER_HOST=<host>, MASTER_PORT=<port>,
#    MASTER_USER=<user>, MASTER_PASSWORD=<password> ;
#
#    where you replace <host>, <user>, <password> by quoted strings and
#    <port> by the master's port number (3306 by default).
#
#    Example:
#
#    CHANGE MASTER TO MASTER_HOST='125.564.12.1', MASTER_PORT=3306,
#    MASTER_USER='joe', MASTER_PASSWORD='secret';
#
# OR
#
# 2) Set the variables below. However, in case you choose this method, then
#    start replication for the first time (even unsuccessfully, for example
#    if you mistyped the password in master-password and the slave fails to
#    connect), the slave will create a master.info file, and any later
#    change in this file to the variables' values below will be ignored and
#    overridden by the content of the master.info file, unless you shutdown
#    the slave server, delete master.info and restart the slaver server.
#    For that reason, you may want to leave the lines below untouched
#    (commented) and instead use CHANGE MASTER TO (see above)
#
# required unique id between 2 and 2^32 - 1
# (and different from the master)
# defaults to 2 if master-host is set
# but will not function as a slave if omitted
#server-id       = 2
#
# The replication master for this slave - required
#master-host     =   <hostname>
#
# The username the slave will use for authentication when connecting
# to the master - required
#master-user     =   <username>
#
# The password the slave will authenticate with when connecting to
# the master - required
#master-password =   <password>
#
# The port the master is listening on.
# optional - defaults to 3306
#master-port     =  <port>
#
# binary logging - not required for slaves, but recommended
#log-bin=mysql-bin


# Point the following paths to different dedicated disks
#tmpdir = "C:/xampp/tmp"
#log-update = /path-to-dedicated-directory/hostname

# Uncomment the following if you are using BDB tables
#bdb_cache_size = 4M
#bdb_max_lock = 10000

# Comment the following if you are using InnoDB tables
#skip-innodb
innodb_data_home_dir = "C:/xampp/mysql/data"
innodb_data_file_path = ibdata1:10M:autoextend
innodb_log_group_home_dir = "C:/xampp/mysql/data"
#innodb_log_arch_dir = "C:/xampp/mysql/data"
## You can set .._buffer_pool_size up to 50 - 80 %
## of RAM but beware of setting memory usage too high
innodb_buffer_pool_size = 16M
innodb_additional_mem_pool_size = 2M
## Set .._log_file_size to 25 % of buffer pool size
innodb_log_file_size = 5M
innodb_log_buffer_size = 8M
innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit = 1
innodb_lock_wait_timeout = 50

## UTF 8 Settings
#init-connect=\'SET NAMES utf8\'
#collation_server=utf8_unicode_ci
#character_set_server=utf8
#skip-character-set-client-handshake
#character_sets-dir="C:/xampp/mysql/share/charsets"

[mysqldump]
quick
max_allowed_packet = 16M

[mysql]
no-auto-rehash
# Remove the next comment character if you are not familiar with SQL
#safe-updates

[isamchk]
key_buffer = 20M
sort_buffer_size = 20M
read_buffer = 2M
write_buffer = 2M

[myisamchk]
key_buffer = 20M
sort_buffer_size = 20M
read_buffer = 2M
write_buffer = 2M

[mysqlhotcopy]
interactive-timeout

Answer 1

It took me 2 days to find the solution. Here our friend Francis posted the solution which worked for me. I think the problem was corrupted files of mysql: https://stackoverflow.com/a/33413223/9106762

Simply navigate to your xampp folder -> mysql -> backup -> copy all files and folders inside it and paste them into xampp/mysql/data directory.

This worked for me perfectly (I tried to change my.ini, ports, resetting the services,... before but nothing worked). Hope it helps others too.

Answer 2

To me, this looks like the offending line:

2015-11-10 15:26:57 4348 [Note] Server socket created on IP: '::'.

It looks like MySQL isn't binding to your localhost, and therefore can't bind to a port on said host, and won't start because of that.

Check your config file in MySQL to make sure it's set up correctly. Failing that, a fresh install of xampp to restore defaults should do the trick.

EDIT:

For more info here, as far as I can tell, if you're using IPv6 then ::1 should be the loopback address for localhost. I'm not entirely sure what just :: is.