Thanks all - The solution was to change the password for root, kill the installer using task manager and start the server. I used the Workbench to manage the database instance. It all seems to be working fine now.
Thanks Tammie -----Original Message----- From: andrew.2.mo...@nokia.com [mailto:andrew.2.mo...@nokia.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 1:09 AM To: tpol...@engineyard.com; mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: uninstall/reinstall You mention the Windows installer has Hung. I have seen this before...try killing the process with task manager and then log into your server via the client. -- Sent from my HTC Desire on 3 -- ----- Reply message ----- From: "ext Tyler Poland" <tpol...@engineyard.com> Date: Tue, Oct 19, 2010 17:50 Subject: uninstall/reinstall To: "mysql@lists.mysql.com" <mysql@lists.mysql.com> Tammie, You might just try resetting the root password http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/resetting-permissions.html#resett ing-permissions-windows. Hope this helps, Tyler On 10/19/10 12:38 PM, Montgomery, Tammie wrote: > I had an old version of mySQL on my computer but never used it. I thought I knew the root password but it wouldn't let me in. I went ahead and uninstalled it thinking I would get a newer version anyway. I used the Windows interface to uninstall the previous version. It appeared to be gone but when I installed the new version, it asked me what the previous root password was and then give new one. I left previous blank and gave it the new password. Now it has been sitting at the screen in the configuration wizard for Apply security settings for about 20 minutes. How should I recover from this? > > Barracuda 400 vers 3.5.12 Checked - Virus Free > -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=andrew.2.mo...@nokia.com Barracuda 400 vers 3.5.12 Checked - Virus Free -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=arch...@jab.org
