On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 12:41 +0200, Tomas Larsson wrote: > My mySQL-server screwed up, dropped all users, and will not let me in. > > Whatever I do I get the following error-message "DBI connect failed : > Access denied for user ''@'localhost' to database 'mysql'" > > I've tried to reinstall the server w/o success. > > How do I restore the functionality? > > With best regards > > Tomas Larsson > Sweden This just happened to me... My problem was the MySQL service was stopped after the upgrade. I restarted MySQL with 'service mysqld start' and VOILA! it works. Ken Nordquist "Did I Do That?"