A few things to try:
1.- did you create the data dir as root?
chown mysql.mysql -R /var/dir-where-you-install
2.- who owns the mysql data dir and it's parent dirs?
ls -lka /var/dir-where-you-installed
3.- try using mysql client
Best Regards
On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 21:55, Jonathan Villa wrote:
> Ok, I have installed MySQL many times and have never come across this...
>
> when try to run
>
> ./bin/mysqladmin -u root password 'new-password'
>
> I get the following
>
> ./bin/mysqladmin: unable to change password; error: 'Table 'user' is
> read only'
>
> I've never had this happen, and unfortunately do not know enough about
> read/write perms on tables to try to debug it.
>
> I promise that I'll study up on it, but right now I'm kinda of in
> rush...
>
> I'm using : mysql-standard-4.0.18-pc-linux-i686.tar.gz
>
> thanks!
>
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