Scott Leighton wrote:
Sounds like it is not running. It installs with no root password, so unless you changed it, you should be able to simply type
#mysql
as root and access the db.
Still the same error occures: # mysql ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2) I verified that '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' did not exist. Below is however the content of /var/lib/mysql/mysqld.log *) And where is e.g. the boot log file located to verify the messages I saw regarding startup of MySQL? Have I missed some steps that need to done after the Yast2 installation? Can possibly phpMyAdmin be used for this troubleshooting? Terje *) # cat /var/lib/mysql/mysqld.log 050410 20:54:09 mysqld started InnoDB: The first specified data file ./ibdata1 did not exist: InnoDB: a new database to be created! 050410 20:54:10 InnoDB: Setting file ./ibdata1 size to 10 MB InnoDB: Database physically writes the file full: wait... 050410 20:54:11 InnoDB: Log file ./ib_logfile0 did not exist: new to be created InnoDB: Setting log file ./ib_logfile0 size to 5 MB InnoDB: Database physically writes the file full: wait... 050410 20:54:12 InnoDB: Log file ./ib_logfile1 did not exist: new to be created InnoDB: Setting log file ./ib_logfile1 size to 5 MB InnoDB: Database physically writes the file full: wait... InnoDB: Doublewrite buffer not found: creating new InnoDB: Doublewrite buffer created InnoDB: Creating foreign key constraint system tables InnoDB: Foreign key constraint system tables created 050410 20:54:15 InnoDB: Started 050410 20:54:15 Fatal error: Can't open privilege tables: Table 'mysql.host' doesn't exist 050410 20:54:15 Aborting 050410 20:54:15 InnoDB: Starting shutdown... 050410 20:54:19 InnoDB: Shutdown completed 050410 20:54:19 /usr/sbin/mysqld-max: Shutdown Complete 050410 20:54:19 mysqld ended