Help starting mysql.

[Reg Clemens]

> 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:
> 
This is mysql-5.0.27-1.fc6 in fc6.
And as I noted, I have a running copy of the same mysql on a different machine.

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                                        Reg.Clemens
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