On 19Dec2006 17:40, Evan Panagiotopoulos <epanagio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: | I just installed Fedora Core 6 and even though I selected mysql to be | installed I cannot get it to run properly. | | The output of: <rpm -qa|fgrep mysql> is ... | | libdbi-dbd-mysql-0.8.1a-1.2.2 | mysql-server-5.0.27-1.fc6 | mysql-connector-odbc-3.51.12-2.2 | mysql-5.0.27-1.fc6 | | The output of </etc/rc.d/init.d/mysqld status> is... | | mysqld (pid 23491) is running... | | When I go to webmin as root I don't see the users table. Also when I | issue: <mysql -u root> and try to set the password (<mysql -u root -p> | acts the same way. | | I do enter with <mysql -u root> If this works it means there is no root password. | mysql> show databases; | +--------------------+ | | Database | | +--------------------+ | | information_schema | | | test | | +--------------------+ | 2 rows in set (0.00 sec) | also: | mysql> use user | ERROR 1044 (42000): Access denied for user ''@'localhost' to database 'user' | mysql> use users | ERROR 1044 (42000): Access denied for user ''@'localhost' to database 'users' | | HELP!!!!! Something must be missing. Yep. There should be a database called "mysql". The users table is inside that. I'd remove (rpm -e) and reinstall the mysql RPM, since you have no data yet. -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ Having been erased, The document you're seeking Must now be retyped. - Haiku Error Messages http://www.salonmagazine.com/21st/chal/1998/02/10chal2.html