When I do a mysqld start (from /etc/rc.d/init.d), there is a long pause, mabe a minute, and then the message Starting MySQL: [FAILED] The first time I tried starting mysql, I saw in the mysql.log file the following messages --- 081028 14:41:25 mysqld started InnoDB: The first specified data file ./ibdata1 did not exist: InnoDB: a new database to be created! 081028 14:41:25 InnoDB: Setting file ./ibdata1 size to 10 MB InnoDB: Database physically writes the file full: wait... 081028 14:41:25 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... 081028 14:41:25 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 081028 14:41:26 InnoDB: Started; log sequence number 0 0 081028 14:41:26 [ERROR] Fatal error: Can't open and lock privilege tables: Table 'mysql.host' doesn't exist 081028 14:41:26 mysqld ended --- Starting the 2nd time, I see the messages --- 081101 00:30:36 mysqld started 081101 0:30:36 InnoDB: Database was not shut down normally! InnoDB: Starting crash recovery. InnoDB: Reading tablespace information from the .ibd files... InnoDB: Restoring possible half-written data pages from the doublewrite InnoDB: buffer... 081101 0:30:36 InnoDB: Starting log scan based on checkpoint at InnoDB: log sequence number 0 36808. InnoDB: Doing recovery: scanned up to log sequence number 0 43655 081101 0:30:36 InnoDB: Starting an apply batch of log records to the database... InnoDB: Progress in percents: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 InnoDB: Apply batch completed 081101 0:30:36 InnoDB: Started; log sequence number 0 43655 081101 0:30:36 [ERROR] Fatal error: Can't open and lock privilege tables: Table 'mysql.host' doesn't exist 081101 00:30:36 mysqld ended --- I dont remember this error from when I used mysql before. Whats going on here, and how do I get the daemon started so I can actually send mysql commands to setup the database? -- Reg.Clemens reg@xxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines