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:
$ rpm -q mysql # What does this command report for you?
I'm guessing this bug might pertain to you:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450178
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