If i go to "wampmanager -> MySQL -> Services", I am able to click "start/resume service". The wamp icon remains yellow.
So i checked the mySQL log to see if there is some kind of report to give me a clue whats going on. This is the block of text that repeats in the log every time i click "Start/Resume service...
121031 22:07:37 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled.
121031 22:07:37 InnoDB: The InnoDB memory heap is disabled
121031 22:07:37 InnoDB: Mutexes and rw_locks use Windows interlocked functions
121031 22:07:37 InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.3
121031 22:07:37 InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, size = 128.0M
121031 22:07:37 InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool
121031 22:07:37 InnoDB: highest supported file format is Barracuda.
121031 22:07:37 InnoDB: Operating system error number 87 in a file operation.
InnoDB: Some operating system error numbers are described at
InnoDB: [
dev.mysql.com]
InnoDB: File name .\ib_logfile0
InnoDB: File operation call: 'aio read'.
InnoDB: Cannot continue operation.
I also re-installed wamp and deleted the associated files from the previous install.
Hopefully this gives someone a clue what might be going on.