Problem:

“Fails to start the service. Please wait 30 seconds to try again.”

I faced this problem 2 years back when I was a newbie to MySQL. I was just starting to learn PHP and MySQL at that time.

[PS: The problem was faced and tackled in Windows platform.]

Solution:

Well, there is my.ini file to control the server. It might be in your

C:/Documents and Settings/Administrator/WINDOWS/my.ini

[I suppose that your Operating System is installed in C: drive]

Here, “Administrator” is the user with the administrator privilege. This could be different as you might have the admin user with your name.

Copy the my.ini file from the above location to

C:/WINDOWS/my.ini

And you are done! Your mysql server will start quite happily.

Cheers,

Mukesh