FC-4 mySQL-Server Problems

Fri Jul 22 12:56:46 UTC 2005

On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 12:41 +0200, Tomas Larsson wrote:
> My mySQL-server screwed up, dropped all users, and will not let me in.
> 
> Whatever I do I get the following error-message "DBI connect failed :
> Access denied for user ''@'localhost' to database 'mysql'"
> 
> I've tried to reinstall the server w/o success.
> 
> How do I restore the functionality?
> 
> With best regards
> 
> Tomas Larsson
> Sweden

This just happened to me...  My problem was the MySQL service was
stopped after the upgrade.  I restarted MySQL with 'service mysqld
start' and VOILA! it works.

Ken Nordquist
"Did I Do That?"