jeggy@jeggy-12:~/Niðurtøkur$ sudo /opt/lampp/lampp start
Starting XAMPP for Linux 1.8.1...
XAMPP: Another web server daemon is already running.
XAMPP: Starting MySQL...
XAMPP: Couldn't start MySQL!
XAMPP: Another FTP daemon is already running.
XAMPP for Linux started.
jeggy@jeggy-12:~/Niðurtøkur$

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 stop

sudo /usr/sbin/apache2ctl stop

jeggy@jeggy-12:~/Niðurtøkur/nspire$ sudo /opt/lampp/lampp start
Starting XAMPP for Linux 1.8.1...
XAMPP: Starting Apache...
XAMPP: Starting MySQL...
XAMPP: Couldn't start MySQL!
XAMPP: Starting ProFTPD...
XAMPP for Linux started.

sudo chmod 755 /opt/lampp/etc/my.cnf
sudo chmod 777 /opt/lampp/var/mysql -R
sudo /opt/lampp/lampp restart