On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 12:45:40AM -0600, Reg Clemens wrote:
> When I do a
> mysqld start
> (from /etc/rc.d/init.d), there is a long pause, mabe a minute, and then
> the message
> Starting MySQL: [FAILED]
>
> The first time I tried starting mysql, I saw in the mysql.log file the
> following messages
>
[...snip...]
> 081028 14:41:26 [ERROR] Fatal error: Can't open and lock privilege tables:
> Table 'mysql.host' doesn't exist
> 081028 14:41:26 mysqld ended
It would be helpful to know the release of Fedora you're running on
(9?), and your version of mysql:
This is mysql-5.0.27-1.fc6 in fc6.
And as I noted, I have a running copy of the same mysql on a different machine.
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Reg.Clemens
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