Edward, Monday, July 22, 2002, 4:46:07 PM, you wrote: >> > After issuing an incorrect GRANT command Mysqld crashed, but >> > restarted itself. On the next boot-up of the machine, Mysqld >> > crashes on startup with an added message about unable to find >> > user.MYD Copying user.MYD from a backup directory changed the >> > message to user.FRM but still crashes. >> > >> >> Problem is that tables contain of more than just one file, recover >> user.* from your backup (the extensions might vary depending on the >> table type)
EvdJ> I realized that later. I probably shouldn't have included that in my EvdJ> report. EvdJ> The point I was trying to make was that Mysql complained about not EvdJ> finding a file which did exist, with the right permissions, etc. EvdJ> This, together with the other things, says to me that the user-grant EvdJ> table had been corrupted by my incorrect GRANT command. I tested your example on 3.23.51 and 4.0.2 and got only syntax error. In your previous post there were a mention about error "Ignoring user" Look at: http://www.mysql.com/doc/I/g/Ignoring_user.html As to your crashed tables, you can restore them from backup or you can re-create them using mysql_install_db script. -- For technical support contracts, goto https://order.mysql.com/?ref=ensita This email is sponsored by Ensita.net http://www.ensita.net/ __ ___ ___ ____ __ / |/ /_ __/ __/ __ \/ / Egor Egorov / /|_/ / // /\ \/ /_/ / /__ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /_/ /_/\_, /___/\___\_\___/ MySQL AB / Ensita.net <___/ www.mysql.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