On Tuesday 17 February 2009, Gordon Messmer wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> The bottom line would appear to be, if you don't have any databases to >> save, then yum remove *mysql*, updatedb locate and nuke ANYTHING left >> behind, then re-install. If you have a database to save, well, rotsa >> ruck. Hope you have backups. > >It's not quite that bad. You can reset by simply removing the contents >of /var/lib/mysql and starting the mysql service. If you have a >database to save, you can use --skip-grant-tables and resetting any >passwords that you require. I am glad that it worked for you. I did that 4 times, and each time the restart was foiled by selinux. Only a total, complete nuke job, cleaning up all the leftovers with rm, succeeded in making a fresh install work. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do. -- Turgenev -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
