* Martin Mueller [12 13:42]:
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> In short, in my installation there seems a gap between mysql and mysql, and
> I can't find any good explanations for what I might have done wrong or how I
> could fix it.
>
> I'll be grateful for any help.
I am probably not going to be very useful, but
I had MySQL 5.5.15 running on OS X Lion, deleted it, and tried to install
5.5.17. I have run into problems that I cannot solve.
To begin with the end, I can run start mysqld with the skip-grant-tables
option and connect with mysql. If I issue the command
select * from mysql
the result returns