I would like to withdraw my earlier bug report with the same subject line. I discovered that an erroneous IP address for the server machine had gotten into /etc/hosts (due to some IP changes in my organization). Once the DNS error was resolved, I was able to connect correctly and fix the password problem.
I apologize for the mistake. >Description: >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: >Submitter-Id: <submitter ID> >Originator: root >Organization: Wellesley College Computer Science >MySQL support: none >Synopsis: can't connect to server and can't reset root password >Severity: critical >Priority: high >Category: mysql >Class: sw-bug >Release: mysql-5.0.22-standard (MySQL Community Edition - Standard (GPL)) >Server: /usr/bin/mysqladmin Ver 8.41 Distrib 5.0.22, for pc-linux-gnu on i686 Copyright (C) 2000 MySQL AB & MySQL Finland AB & TCX DataKonsult AB This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to modify and redistribute it under the GPL license Server version 5.0.22-standard Protocol version 10 Connection Localhost via UNIX socket UNIX socket /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock Uptime: 56 min 0 sec Threads: 1 Questions: 876 Slow queries: 0 Opens: 0 Flush tables: 1 Open tables: 64 Queries per second avg: 0.261 >C compiler: gcc (GCC) 3.2.3 20030502 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-52) >C++ compiler: gcc (GCC) 3.2.3 20030502 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-52) >Environment: System: Linux puma.wellesley.edu 2.4.21-47.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Jul 5 20:38:41 EDT 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux Architecture: i686 Some paths: /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/make /usr/bin/gmake /usr/bin/gcc /usr/bin/cc GCC: Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2.3/specs Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --disable-checking --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit --host=i386-redhat-linux Thread model: posix gcc version 3.2.3 20030502 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-56) Compilation info: CC='gcc' CFLAGS='-O2 -g -pipe -march=i386 -mcpu=i686' CXX='gcc' CXXFLAGS='-O2 -g -pipe -march=i386 -mcpu=i686' LDFLAGS='' ASFLAGS='' LIBC: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Jul 25 18:20 /lib/libc.so.6 -> libc-2.3.2.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1512793 Jun 16 07:32 /lib/libc-2.3.2.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2468490 Jun 16 06:50 /usr/lib/libc.a -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 204 Jun 16 06:36 /usr/lib/libc.so Configure command: ./configure '--disable-shared' '--with-server-suffix=-standard' '--without-embedded-server' '--with-innodb' '--with-archive-storage-engine' '--without-bench' '--with-zlib-dir=bundled' '--with-big-tables' '--enable-assembler' '--enable-local-infile' '--with-mysqld-user=mysql' '--with-unix-socket-path=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' '--with-pic' '--prefix=/' '--with-extra-charsets=complex' '--with-yassl' '--exec-prefix=/usr' '--libexecdir=/usr/sbin' '--libdir=/usr/lib' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--datadir=/usr/share' '--localstatedir=/var/lib/mysql' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--includedir=/usr/include' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--enable-thread-safe-client' '--with-comment=MySQL Community Edition - Standard (GPL)' '--with-readline' 'CC=gcc' 'CFLAGS=-O2 -g -pipe -march=i386 -mcpu=i686' 'CXXFLAGS=-O2 -g -pipe -march=i386 -mcpu=i686' 'CXX=gcc' 'LDFLAGS=' -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]