Did you kill off the --skip-grant-tables instance first?
Other than that, you may have entered the password incorrectly in one place or the other.
Joel Brauer Manager IS Communications and Web Technologies Loma Linda University pager: [email protected] [email protected] On Mar 20, 2007, at 11:30 AM, Roger E. Rustad, Jr. wrote:
Try pressing your <Enter> key and see if that gets you back to a prompt.If it does, then do: ps waux | grep mysqld to see if it's running.Actually, it is running. I see the PID associated with it. ************************************************************ [r...@santiago ~]# ps waux | grep mysql root 4431 0.0 0.0 52752 1148 pts/0 S 10:24 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables mysql 4462 0.0 0.5 150416 23784 pts/0 Sl 10:24 0:00 /usr/libexec/mysqld --basedir=/usr --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --user=mysql --pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid --skip-locking --socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock --skip-grant-tablesroot 4473 0.0 0.0 51072 672 pts/0 S+ 10:25 0:00 grep mysql************************************************************ http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/recover-mysql-root-password.htmlI go through all the rest of the above steps ok, but on the final step, I get:************************************************************ [r...@santiago ~]# mysql -u root -p Enter password: (HERE I ENTER IN A PASSWORD) ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES) [r...@santiago ~]# ************************************************************ _______________________________________________ 909linux mailing list [email protected] http://909linux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/909linux
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