Yup that worked - I rebooted my machine - and I was allowed in - Thank you very much
Andrew -----Original Message----- From: Brian Snyder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 3:30 PM Cc: MySQL Subject: Re: Upgrading help please Andrew, I had the same problem and had to stop and restart the servers. Give that a shot. brian On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 17:19, Andrew wrote: > Good day List, > I have just upgraded from 3.23 ->4.0.16 > > I downloaded all the RPM's and then ran rpm -U *.rpm > > It did all that it was supposed to do, and then told me to use the > /usr/bin/mysql_fix_privilege_tables script > > which I did got horrid errors > ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket > '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2) > > So I specified > mysql_fix_privilege_tables root_password > > Same Errors (2002) > > Tried the other method that is on the mysql manual > mysql_fix_privilege_tables --password=root_password > > Same error 2002. > > now Unfortunately I am unable to even connect to mysql with either > mysqladmin or the client. > > MySQL-bench-4.0.16-0.i386.rpm > MySQL-client-4.0.16-0.i386.rpm > MySQL-devel-4.0.16-0.i386.rpm > MySQL-embedded-4.0.16-0.i386.rpm > MySQL-Max-4.0.16-0.i386.rpm > MySQL-server-4.0.16-0.i386.rpm > MySQL-shared-4.0.16-0.i386.rpm > MySQL-shared-compat-4.0.16-0.i386.rpm > > is a list of the RPMS that I downloaded and ran. > > Any ideas and help would be most appreciated. > > Thank you > Andrew > > ________________________________________________ > Message sent using UebiMiau 2.7.2 > -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
