"Service MariaDB can not start" (my.ini)

[Paolo Sacchetti]

Hello, this is Paolo from Italy.
I've got a problem after Laragon installation (I've searched in other thread to solve my problem but I can't find issues like mine...)
I've installed Laragon in order to replace WAMP. After installation and trying to start all the services (Apache starts OK), it prompt the following message:

Service MariaDB can not start. Reason:

error: Found option without preceding group in config file: C:\my.ini at line: 1
Fatal error in defaults handling. Program aborted

I've checked the "my.ini" file then, and the first lines are:

[client]
#password=your_password
port=3306
socket=/tmp/mysql.sock

ecc...

So I've tried to uncomment the first line, but the problem still remain.

Any suggestion are more than welcome...

Cheers
Paolo

[Paolo Sacchetti]

...sorry - in my previous post, the my.ini file I've tried to edit was the one included in "C:\laragon\bin\mysql\mariadb-10.3.10-winx64" folder, while the error prompt refer to "C:\my.ini".

So I've open this file and I've found the following SQL command (quotation marks excluded):

"UPDATE mysql.user SET Password=PASSWORD('mylocal') WHERE User='root';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;"

Maybe I've got to edit this line? and according to what?

[Paolo Sacchetti]

UPDATE - Deleted the my.ini contents

I've removed/deleted the SQL lines in c:\my.ini file, rebooted and now it seems to work...

[leokhoa]

@Paolo-Sacchetti : I had no idea about C:\my.ini. Glad you can sort out the issue yourself - Cheers!