Thanks for your reply. I confirmed that user and group, mysql, exists and performed the chown as instructed but same thing. Here is my log again after I did this:

050810 23:18:09  mysqld started
050810 23:18:09  InnoDB: Database was not shut down normally!
InnoDB: Starting crash recovery.
InnoDB: Reading tablespace information from the .ibd files...
InnoDB: Restoring possible half-written data pages from the doublewrite
InnoDB: buffer...
050810 23:18:09  InnoDB: Starting log scan based on checkpoint at
InnoDB: log sequence number 0 43634.
InnoDB: Doing recovery: scanned up to log sequence number 0 43634
050810 23:18:09  InnoDB: Flushing modified pages from the buffer pool...
050810 23:18:09  InnoDB: Started; log sequence number 0 43634
050810 23:18:09 [ERROR] Fatal error: Can't open privilege tables: Table 'mysql.h ost' doesn't exist
050810 23:18:09  mysqld ended

Michael.

Pinter Tibor (tibyke) wrote:

check if rpm creates mysql user and group.
then mysql_install_db, chown mysql:mysql /var/lib/mysql -R
and finally try starting mysqld again

t


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