I had the same issue on my Mac machine (correctly followed all the installation steps suggested by brew install
).
Deleting the error file fixed it for me:
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/var/mysql/dev.work.err
(dev.work
is my hostname)
This worked because dev.work.err
was owned by _mysql:wheel
instead of my own username. CHOWN-ing the error file would have probably fixed it as well.