Subject: Re: mysql_upgrade then mysqld. I feel very ID-10-T PEBKAC today > 2018-02-23T14:02:33.962240Z 0 [ERROR] [MY-010735] Can't open the mysql.plugin table. Please run mysql_upgrade to create it.
> How do I run mysql_upgrade if the mysqld server won't start? Please don't bother to answer, I did figure it out, I'm sorry, for a bad question and worse followup. Apparently I'm a spammer as well. Apparently the error was caused by something else besides plugins in my configuration. After carefully running --initialize from scratch and modifying my.ini I was able to get mysqld.exe up and running just fine on Windows 64 for MySQL 8.0 RC. After that mysql_upgrade worked a treat. I did have a couple issues since it was my first time *NOT* using --initialize_insecure in this configuration but it all works if you do it right. As per usual. Sorry for the noise here, Robert Eby
