Another MySQL daemon is already running?

Question

root@jose-desktop:~# sudo /opt/lampp/lampp start
Starting XAMPP for Linux 1.7.7...
XAMPP: Starting Apache...
XAMPP: Another MySQL daemon is already running.
XAMPP: Starting ProFTPD...
XAMPP for Linux started.

I managed to connect the Apache but, now,,, Another MySql daemon is already running? still appearing and I can't connect MySQL

any help?

Answer 1

Have you got the ubuntu mysql installed as well as the LAMPP one? I would stop everything and then stat LAMPP

 sudo /opt/lampp/lampp stop
 sudo /etc/init.d/mysql stop
 sudo /opt/lampp/lampp start