Egor: Yes, im sure that the host.xxx tables are in the directory I specified to the mysql_install_db script.
One thing to note.. This is a software package for my distro... I did not compile from source so I dont know what options were used in the compile process. It may be that the server is unable to look in the dir where the files are... if this is the case then this would explain why the server cant find the host.xxx databases. I have tried to run safe_mysqld --datadir=/path/to/data but that doesnt help Do you think I should just uninstall the package, and download the sources and start over? Im at the end of my rope with this, Its just dumb to me that the server cant find something that I can find, even after I tell it where to look. There must be something more wrong that just a simple chown command, or file permissions or something like that. Just my opinion. Thoughts? >From: Egor Egorov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Server startup error on Linux >Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 20:32:00 +0200 > >Rance, >Friday, March 22, 2002, 4:53:41 PM, you wrote: > >RH> here goes (not that it will give you any better information than I did >RH> already but since you asked...) > >RH> <<<exerpt from .err file follows>>> >RH> 020318 14:30:48 mysqld started >RH> 020318 14:30:49 /usr/libexec/mysqld: Table 'mysql.host' doesn't >exist >RH> 020318 14:30:49 mysqld ended >RH> <<<exerpt from .err file ended>>> > >RH> because I have about 18 similar blocks in my .err file for each time I >tried >RH> to start the server to see if I fixed the problem coping the entire >.err >RH> file didnt make any sense. > >RH> Again, this is after running the mysql_install_db and verifing that >RH> permissions to the files created by mysql_install_db are correct. > >RH> --skip-grant-tables will allow the server to start, but a normal start >is >RH> impossible > >Rance, are you sure that table 'host' really exists? >Take a look at mysql datadir if there are the grant tables like >'host.frm', 'host.MYD', 'host.MYI'. > >RH> Rance _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
