Help starting mysql.

[Paul W. Frields]

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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