On Monday 16 February 2009, Craig White wrote: >On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 15:38 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> webmin not available according to yum. >> >> Ok, so I rip it out again, only this time I run a script that searches the >> locate database for mysql and deletes all the leftovers before I >> reinstall. >> >> Would that help? Something is obviously completely fubar. > >---- >turned out that I had to start mysqld before running... > >mysqladmin - u root password 'new-password' > >after that, it was no problem connecting > ># mysqladmin -u root password 'test' >[root@lin-workstation httpd]# mysql -p >Enter password: >Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. >Your MySQL connection id is 5 >Server version: 5.0.67 Source distribution > >Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer. > >mysql> \q >Bye > >webmin (rpm and/or tarball) is available at http://www.webmin.com > >Craig This time I not only had yum remove anything mysql related, I then ran thru the output of a fresh updatedb run, and nuked everything I could find. Then I had yum install about 50 mysql related packages. Now it will at least start mysqld. If the root pw is empty I should be able to run something, so I'll start with mysqladmin in the gui. And using the gui, and this machines FQDN, I am apparently in. The bottom line would appear to be, if you don't have any databases to save, then yum remove *mysql*, updatedb locate and nuke ANYTHING left behind, then re-install. If you have a database to save, well, rotsa ruck. Hope you have backups. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Been Transferred Lately? -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
