On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 12:45:40AM -0600, Reg Clemens wrote: > 081028 14:41:26 [ERROR] Fatal error: Can't open and lock privilege tables: > 081101 0:30:36 [ERROR] Fatal error: Can't open and lock privilege tables: Make sure you're starting /etc/init.d/mysqld as root. If you haven't already, you could try executing mysql_secure_installation as root. Ian