>Description: I'm sorry This is long, but it's because I've tried hard to fix this myself; please bear with me.
Last week, for unknown reason, my root password for MySQL wasn't working. I may have changed it without updating the "/root/.my.cnf" file. So, I went to the online documentation (which is usually excellent) and followed the instructions for resetting the password. I first tried the one with the init-file and that didn't work, so then I used the one where you skip the grant tables, and that didn't work either. I would update the mysql.user table, and I would see the changed encrypted password, but the new password wouldn't work. I should probably have stopped there, but seeing that there was a new, stable version of MySQL (I was running 4.1.9), I decided to upgrade, figuring that the instructions for setting the password would take care of the problem. In any event, I figured that you'd rather fix the problem in 5.0.22. So, I downloaded the RPM and installed it. Here is the transcript: # rpm -Uvh MySQL-server-standard-5.0.22-0.rhel3.i386.rpm Preparing... ########################################### [100%] Giving mysqld a couple of seconds to exit nicely 1:MySQL-server-standard ########################################### [100%] PLEASE REMEMBER TO SET A PASSWORD FOR THE MySQL root USER ! To do so, start the server, then issue the following commands: /usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root password 'new-password' /usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root -h puma.wellesley.edu password 'new-password' See the manual for more instructions. NOTE: If you are upgrading from a MySQL <= 3.22.10 you should run the /usr/bin/mysql_fix_privilege_tables. Otherwise you will not be able to use the new GRANT command! Please report any problems with the /usr/bin/mysqlbug script! The latest information about MySQL is available on the web at http://www.mysql.com Support MySQL by buying support/licenses at http://shop.mysql.com /usr/bin/mysqlcheck: unknown option '--check-upgrade' This script updates all the mysql privilege tables to be usable by MySQL 4.0 and above. This is needed if you want to use the new GRANT functions, CREATE AGGREGATE FUNCTION, stored procedures, or more secure passwords in 4.1 Got a failure from command: cat /usr/share/mysql/mysql_fix_privilege_tables.sql | /usr/bin/mysql --no-defaults --force --user=mysql --host=localhost --database=mysql Please check the above output and try again. Running the script with the --verbose option may give you some information of what went wrong. If you get an 'Access denied' error, you should run this script again and give the MySQL root user password as an argument with the --password= option Starting MySQL.[ OK ] # Following your instructions, I started the server and ran the password-setting command. Here's the transcript: # service mysql start Starting MySQL [ OK ] # mysqladmin -u root password 'blahblah' mysqladmin: connect to server at 'puma' failed error: 'Lost connection to MySQL server during query' # ps -ef | grep mysql root 12811 1 0 11:11 pts/0 00:00:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/mysqld_safe --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --pid-file=/var/lib/mysql/puma.wellesley.edu.pid mysql 12832 12811 0 11:11 pts/0 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/mysqld --basedir=/ --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --user=mysql --pid-file=/var/lib/mysql/puma.wellesley.edu.pid --skip-locking So, it looks like the server is running, but for some reason I can't connect. I've tried a bunch of other ways (such as starting it with --skip-grant-tables) but no luck. I've checked the error log, and it's quite clean. For example: 060801 11:39:31 mysqld started 060801 11:39:31 InnoDB: Started; log sequence number 0 81455176 060801 11:39:31 [Note] /usr/sbin/mysqld: ready for connections. Version: '5.0.22-standard' socket: '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' port: 3306 MySQL Community Edition - Standard (GPL) Interestingly, if I use "nmap", it shows that port 3306 is open, but if I try to telnet to that port, it never responds. >How-To-Repeat: Start mysql server in the usual way, which yields no errors, then try something as simple as # mysqladmin -u root ping This will hang for a very long time (several minutes) and eventually say: mysqladmin: connect to server at 'puma' failed error: 'Lost connection to MySQL server during query' >Fix: None that I know of. This is a real problem for me. >Submitter-Id: <submitter ID> >Originator: root >Organization: Wellesley College Computer Science >MySQL support: none >Synopsis: can't connect to server and can't reset root password >Severity: critical >Priority: high >Category: mysql >Class: sw-bug >Release: mysql-5.0.22-standard (MySQL Community Edition - Standard (GPL)) >C compiler: gcc (GCC) 3.2.3 20030502 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-52) >C++ compiler: gcc (GCC) 3.2.3 20030502 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-52) >Environment: System: Linux puma.wellesley.edu 2.4.21-47.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Jul 5 20:38:41 EDT 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux Architecture: i686 Some paths: /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/make /usr/bin/gmake /usr/bin/gcc /usr/bin/cc GCC: Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2.3/specs Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --disable-checking --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit --host=i386-redhat-linux Thread model: posix gcc version 3.2.3 20030502 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-56) Compilation info: CC='gcc' CFLAGS='-O2 -g -pipe -march=i386 -mcpu=i686' CXX='gcc' CXXFLAGS='-O2 -g -pipe -march=i386 -mcpu=i686' LDFLAGS='' ASFLAGS='' LIBC: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Jul 25 18:20 /lib/libc.so.6 -> libc-2.3.2.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1512793 Jun 16 07:32 /lib/libc-2.3.2.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2468490 Jun 16 06:50 /usr/lib/libc.a -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 204 Jun 16 06:36 /usr/lib/libc.so Configure command: ./configure '--disable-shared' '--with-server-suffix=-standard' '--without-embedded-server' '--with-innodb' '--with-archive-storage-engine' '--without-bench' '--with-zlib-dir=bundled' '--with-big-tables' '--enable-assembler' '--enable-local-infile' '--with-mysqld-user=mysql' '--with-unix-socket-path=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' '--with-pic' '--prefix=/' '--with-extra-charsets=complex' '--with-yassl' '--exec-prefix=/usr' '--libexecdir=/usr/sbin' '--libdir=/usr/lib' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--datadir=/usr/share' '--localstatedir=/var/lib/mysql' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--includedir=/usr/include' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--enable-thread-safe-client' '--with-comment=MySQL Community Edition - Standard (GPL)' '--with-readline' 'CC=gcc' 'CFLAGS=-O2 -g -pipe -march=i386 -mcpu=i686' 'CXXFLAGS=-O2 -g -pipe -march=i386 -mcpu=i686' 'CXX=gcc' 'LDFLAGS=' -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
