mysqld won't start

[Dave Stevens]

Hi,

I have mysql installed in my F7 x86-64 system. When I try to use the System | 
Administration | Server Settings and highlight mysqld and click on start I 
get a delay and

"mysqld failed. The error was: Timeout error occurred trying to start MySQL 
Daemon.
Starting MySQL:  [FAILED]"

This is less informative than I would like it to be.

/var/log/mysqld.log ends with:

080131 16:19:46  mysqld ended

080131 16:25:55  mysqld started
080131 16:25:55  InnoDB: Database was not shut down normally!
InnoDB: Starting crash recovery.
InnoDB: Reading tablespace information from the .ibd files...
InnoDB: Restoring possible half-written data pages from the doublewrite
InnoDB: buffer...
080131 16:25:55  InnoDB: Starting log scan based on checkpoint at
InnoDB: log sequence number 0 36808.
InnoDB: Doing recovery: scanned up to log sequence number 0 43655
080131 16:25:55  InnoDB: Starting an apply batch of log records to the 
database.
..
InnoDB: Progress in percents: 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 
24
 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 
5
1 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 
77 
78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 
InnoDB: Apply batch completed
080131 16:25:56  InnoDB: Started; log sequence number 0 43655
080131 16:25:56 [ERROR] Fatal error: Can't open and lock privilege tables: 
Table
 'mysql.host' doesn't exist
080131 16:25:56  mysqld ended

I don't know what this means or what to do about it. I have searched for 
mysql.host and it seems not to be present. Ideas? 


Dave

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