On Jan 31, 2008 5:31 PM, Dave Stevens <geek@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thursday 31 January 2008 05:15:58 pm Aldo Foot wrote: > > On Jan 31, 2008 4:34 PM, Dave Stevens <geek@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have mysql installed in my F7 x86-64 system. When I try to use the > > > System | Administration | Server Settings and highlight mysqld and click > > > on start I get a delay and > > > > > > "mysqld failed. The error was: Timeout error occurred trying to start > > > MySQL Daemon. > > > Starting MySQL: [FAILED]" > > > > > > This is less informative than I would like it to be. > > snip! > > > See if this will save you some time and effort: > > Try removing the server and then reinstall it. > > yum remove mysql-server > > yum install mysql-server > > > > ~af > > Thanks, a good idea but no go: > > > [root@localhost log]# tail mysqld.log > 080131 17:28:44 InnoDB: Starting log scan based on checkpoint at > InnoDB: log sequence number 0 36808. > InnoDB: Doing recovery: scanned up to log sequence number 0 43655 > 080131 17:28:44 InnoDB: Starting an apply batch of log records to the > database... > InnoDB: Progress in percents: 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 > 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 > 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 > 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 > InnoDB: Apply batch completed > 080131 17:28:45 InnoDB: Started; log sequence number 0 43655 > 080131 17:28:45 [ERROR] Fatal error: Can't open and lock privilege tables: > Table 'mysql.host' doesn't exist > 080131 17:28:45 mysqld ended > > other ideas? > > > Dave try uninstalling the mysql-server again, but this time remove /var/lib/mysql and /etc/my.cnf. Backup them up first in case you have something in there you need to keep. then reinstall again.and do "service mysqld start" ~af
