120602 19:03:19 InnoDB: Waiting for the background threads to start
120602 19:03:20 InnoDB: 1.1.5 started; log sequence number 2155602691
120602 19:03:20 [ERROR] /Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/mysqld: unknown option ‘–skip-locking’
120602 19:03:20 [ERROR] Aborting
120602 19:03:20 InnoDB: Starting shutdown…
120602 19:03:21 InnoDB: Shutdown completed; log sequence number 2155602691
120602 19:03:21 [Note] /Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/mysqld: Shutdown complete
120602 19:03:21 mysqld_safe mysqld from pid file /Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/mysql.pid ended
120602 19:03:20 InnoDB: 1.1.5 started; log sequence number 2155602691
120602 19:03:20 [ERROR] /Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/mysqld: unknown option ‘–skip-locking’
120602 19:03:20 [ERROR] Aborting
120602 19:03:20 InnoDB: Starting shutdown…
120602 19:03:21 InnoDB: Shutdown completed; log sequence number 2155602691
120602 19:03:21 [Note] /Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/mysqld: Shutdown complete
120602 19:03:21 mysqld_safe mysqld from pid file /Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/mysql.pid ended
Luego de estar googleando una hora sin sentido encontré que en /etc tenía un my.cnf que estaba levantando MAMP y por lo cual daba problemas. Renombré dicho archivo a my-cnf y solved!
