On Monday 16 February 2009, Craig White wrote:
On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 15:38 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> webmin not available according to yum.
>
> Ok, so I rip it out again, only this time I run a script that searches the
> locate database for mysql and deletes all the leftovers before I
> reinstall.
>
> Would that help? Something is obviously completely fubar.
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turned out that I had to start mysqld before running...
mysqladmin - u root password 'new-password'
after that, it was no problem connecting
# mysqladmin -u root password 'test'
[root@lin-workstation httpd]# mysql -p
Enter password:
Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 5
Server version: 5.0.67 Source distribution
Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer.
mysql> \q
Bye
webmin (rpm and/or tarball) is available at
http://www.webmin.com
Craig
This time I not only had yum remove anything mysql related, I then ran thru
the output of a fresh updatedb run, and nuked everything I could find.
Then I had yum install about 50 mysql related packages. Now it will at least
start mysqld.
If the root pw is empty I should be able to run something, so I'll start with
mysqladmin in the gui. And using the gui, and this machines FQDN, I am
apparently in.
The bottom line would appear to be, if you don't have any databases to save,
then yum remove *mysql*, updatedb locate and nuke ANYTHING left behind, then
re-install. If you have a database to save, well, rotsa ruck. Hope you have
backups.
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Cheers, Gene
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