I had a similar experience right down to the error message you are getting. Based on
that experience, I am inclined to recommend the following:
1) Abandon your current installation which I perceive that your are attempting from a
MySQL tarball.
2) Download the webmin-1.030 tarball and execute
Lefevre, Steven wrote:
I'm still getting the error 'Can't find hosts.frm' when I try to laund the
mysql daemon.
I've run the mysql_install_db script several times.
I've changed the user and group ownership for all the files in the
/usr/libexec/mysql directory, and also in /var/lib/mysql to
