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I just installed wampserver on my machine and I cannot get it to start, the icon stays orange. I am using Windows7 Home Premium (64-bit) and I installed wampserver 2.2E (64-bit). I did not have any issues with the install. I checked port 80 and it's being used by Apache. So it seems like the apache service is running, but the MySQL service is not. I tried turning off the firewall, I checked if a different MySQL service was running, and I tried to start wampmysqld manually in Services. When I tried to start wampmysqld in Services, an error came up saying

Windows could not start the wampmysqld service on Local Computer.
Error 1067: The process terminated unexpectedly.

And when I view the MySQL log, it says:

140216 21:52:04 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled.
140216 21:52:04 [Note] Plugin 'InnoDB' is disabled.
140216 21:52:04 [ERROR] wampmysqld: unknown option '--skip-locking'
140216 21:52:04 [ERROR] Aborting

140216 21:52:04 [Note] wampmysqld: Shutdown completeBlockquote

Alex
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  1. Stop the MySQL service
  2. Open data folder
  3. Remove both ib_logfile0 and ib_logfile1
  4. Restart the service
showdev
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Aas Mohammed
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Edit your my.ini file. Use the wampmanager menus to open an editor on my.ini

left click wampmanager -> MySQL -> my.ini

Change the parameter

skip-locking

To 

skip-external-locking

Its just an old parameter that they forgot to change when releasing this version of WAMP.

RiggsFolly
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