New Installation cannot view users table

[Cameron Simpson]

On 19Dec2006 17:40, Evan Panagiotopoulos <epanagio at poughkeepsieschools.org> wrote:
| I just installed Fedora Core 6 and even though I selected mysql to be
| installed I cannot get it to run properly.
| 
| The output of: <rpm -qa|fgrep mysql> is ...
| 
| libdbi-dbd-mysql-0.8.1a-1.2.2
| mysql-server-5.0.27-1.fc6
| mysql-connector-odbc-3.51.12-2.2
| mysql-5.0.27-1.fc6
| 
| The output of </etc/rc.d/init.d/mysqld status> is...
| 
| mysqld (pid 23491) is running...
| 
| When I go to webmin as root I don't see the users table. Also when I
| issue: <mysql -u root> and try to set the password (<mysql -u root -p>
| acts the same way.
| 
| I do enter with <mysql -u root>

If this works it means there is no root password.

| mysql> show databases;
| +--------------------+
| | Database           |
| +--------------------+
| | information_schema |
| | test               |
| +--------------------+
| 2 rows in set (0.00 sec)
| also:
| mysql> use user
| ERROR 1044 (42000): Access denied for user ''@'localhost' to database 'user'
| mysql> use users
| ERROR 1044 (42000): Access denied for user ''@'localhost' to database 'users'
| 
| HELP!!!!! Something must be missing.

Yep. There should be a database called "mysql". The users table is
inside that.

I'd remove (rpm -e) and reinstall the mysql RPM, since you have no data
yet.
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