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Jason Baigent wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to install RH7(Guiness) Mysql RPM. I installed mysql-3.23.22-6
> RPM,mysql-devel-3.23.22-6 RPM,mysql-server-3.23.22-6 RPM
>
> I used the GNOME RPM installer from files from the RedHat CD2.
>
> I tried /usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root password 'new password'
>
> and it returned
> >connect to server at 'localhost' failed
> error:'Cant connect to local mysqlserver through socket
> ' /var/lib/mysql.sock (111)'
> check mysqld is running and that the /var/lib/mysql.sock exists!'
>
> so I tried starting mysqld with '/usr/bin/safe_mysqld &' and got
> >starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysql
> >010318 mysqld ended
>
> and checked if /var/lib/mysql.sock existed, which it did but was empty.
>
> I saw a file with localhost.localdomain.err and in it was the messsage
> >mysqld started
> >/usr/libexec/mysqld:Table "mysql.host" doesnt exist
> >mysqld ended
>
> I retried mysqladmin -u root password 'new password'
> but still came up with the same error.
>
> Info:-
> -submitter id :
> -originator: jason baigent
> -organisation:
> -mysql support:none
> -release :mysql-3.23.22-beta
> -system :linux localhost.localdomain 2.2.16-22
> -architecture:i586
> -some paths: /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/make /usr/bin/gmake /usr/bin/gcc
> /usr/bin/cc
> -gcc:reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/specs
> gcc version 2.96 20000731 (RH Linux 7.0)
> Compliationinfo:CC='gcc' CFLAGS='-02 - march=i386 -mcpu=i686' CXX=c++
> CXXFLAGS='-02 -march=i386 -mcpu=i686' LDPFLAGS=''
>
> LIBC:
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Mar 16 03:09 /lib/libc.so.6 ->
> libc-2.1.92.so
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4686077 Aug 31 2000 /lib/libc-2.1.92.so
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22607104 Aug 31 2000 /usr/lib/libc.a
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 178 Aug 31 2000 /usr/lib/libc.so
>
> Config Command: ./configure i386-redhat-linux --prefix=/usr
> --exec-prefix=/usr
> --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc
> --datadir=/usr/share
> --includedir=/usr/include --libdir=/usr/lib --libexecdir=/usr/libexec
> --localstatedir=/var
> --sharedstatedir=/usr/com -mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir =/usr/share/info
> --without-debug --without-readline --enable-shared
> --with-extra-charsets=complex --without-bench
> --localstatedir=/var/lib/mysql
> --with-unix-socket-path=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
> --enable-assembler --with-mysqld-user=mysql
>
>
> I've tried to follow the docs from mysql.com but am stumped! I am
> relatively
> new to linux.
>
> I have managed to install RH7 apache and php4 and they work.
>
> Any help or ideas appreciated.
>
> Thankyou
>
> Jason Baigent
>
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