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answers below:
On Feb 6, 2007, at 14:49, Watson Ladd wrote:
Ryan Schmidt wrote:
On Feb 6, 2007, at 14:20, Watson Ladd wrote:
I recently forgot my mysql password. When following the
instructions on
mysql.com to reset it I was able to stop the mysqld daemon through
launchctl, but when I started mysqld manually with the skip grant
tables
option it complained about being unable to lock files and became a
runaway process that did not respond to keyboard input.
So what is your question?
You've provided very few details... we need more information, like:
- What is the URL of the instructions you followed?
- What are the commands you entered?
I can guess at a few things:
- When you started mysqld manually, did you do so as root or with
sudo?
You would need to.
- When you started mysqld manually, did you have "&" at the end of
the
command line? If so, that detaches the process from the terminal and
explains why you can see output but not provide input. If you want
to be
able to provide input to the process, do not use "&".
I did not use &. The command I used for restart was
$sudo -u mysqld /opt/local/libexec/mysqld --skip-grant-tables
According to the mysqld documentation, this should start mysqld
without
passwords. Previously I used
$sudo launchctl stop org.macports.mysql5 to kill mysqld. It is
possible
that an abandoned lockfile might exist. If so, where is it?
I don't know about any such lockfile, but likely places to look might be
/opt/local/etc/mysq5/
/opt/local/var/db/mysql5/
/opt/local/var/run/mysql5/
If that doesn't help, could you show us the exact error messages
you're seeing? Have you already searched Google for those error
messages?
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