Hi, John Thank you for the response.
I chmod for all database files under ./data/, and now I can update the password for the root user. Thanks a lot. Jean --- John McCaskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did your client side host change? The user/pass are > sometimes setup to > only allow access from a specific host subnet or > single ip address. > > John A. McCaskey > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jean Zhong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 1:27 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: can't log in mysql server > > > Hello everyone, > > I met a strange problem. > I can't log in mysql server using my password > suddently. > I check the modified date of user.MYD & user.MYI in > /usr/local/mysql/data/mysql/ folder. Both of them > were not modified > recently. That means I didn't change the password > for mysql server. > > Did anyone meet the same problem before? Does anyone > know how to deal with it? Thank you very much. > > I still tried to reset the password following the > mysql manual: > > > mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables & > or > > safe_mysqld --skip-grant-tables & > > But it gave me the following errors in the > localhost.err: > > 040802 16:08:02 mysqld started > Warning: One can only use the --user switch if > running > as root > 040802 16:08:03 InnoDB: Started > 040802 16:08:03 /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld: Can't > create/write to file > '/usr/local/mysql/data/localhost.pid' (Errcode: 13) > /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld: ready for connections. > Version: '4.0.18-debug-debug' socket: > '/tmp/mysql.sock' port: 3306 > > And, when I tried to connect to the mysql server: > > mysql -u root > > and update the password, use: > > UPDATE mysql.user SET Password=PASSWORD('newpwd') > -> WHERE User='root'; > > I got the following error: > > ERROR 1017: Can't find file: './mysql/user.frm' > (errno: 13) > > > Does anyone have any idea about this? > > I really appreciate your help and looking forward to > your reply. > > Jean > > > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We > finish. > http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail > > -- > 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] > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
