php - MySQL Database won't start in XAMPP Manager-osx

Question

I downloaded XAMPP about a month ago and it was working just fine. Today I installed a voice recognition software and then restarted my computer. Ever since, MySQL won't start in my manager-osx application. It doesn't throw me an in the application log. This is what it says:

Stopping all servers...
Stopping Apache Web Server...
/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/apache2/scripts/ctl.sh : httpd stopped
Stopping ProFTPD...
Checking syntax of configuration file
/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/proftpd/scripts/ctl.sh : proftpd stopped
Restarting all servers...
Starting MySQL Database...

Starting Apache Web Server...
/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/apache2/scripts/ctl.sh : httpd started
Starting ProFTPD...
Checking syntax of configuration file
/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/proftpd/scripts/ctl.sh : proftpd started

Both my ProFTPD and my Apache Web Server are running. MySQL isn't. When I go to phpmyadmin, it throws me this error message.

#2002 - No such file or directory
The server is not responding (or the local server's socket is not correctly configured).

Please help me. I have no idea what to do.

UPDATE:

After looking around the internet a bit, I found a similar problem a user had with MAMP, another user recommended killing the mysql process, what ever that means. Could this be a fix to my problem?

UPDATE 2:

I found the answer to my problem but I can't answer it yet. So here's the answer:

1) Open terminal and type

sudo su

and then put in your password

2) Then type

ps aux | grep mysql

(just copy and paste this)

3) You will need to get the process id of mysql. There should be number near the top, something like 739 or 8827

4) Kill the process using

kill -9 {process id}

this should look something like this: kill -9 739

5) Restart MySQL in manager-osx

Answer 1

This should work:
sudo /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/bin/mysql.server start