On Tuesday 03 March 2009, Kevin Kofler wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> I was, since there wasn't anything precious in the database, going to >> remove it and re-install, but the removal would have removed all of kde >> too. That is not very nice. > >Removing and reinstalling is very likely not to fix anything anyway, as >settings are normally not kept in files which get removed by removing the >package. At most you might get mysql.conf reset to the default. I wish >people would stop suggesting "remove and reinstall" as a solution for >configuration issues. > > Kevin Kofler It turns out that the mysql web page advise is bogus, I had to scroll down through the newer comments quite a ways and found another method, and that worked. So mysql is up and running. However, I think removing about 30 assorted kde & qt packages to get rid of mysql is a pretty long reach. Needless to say, I canceled that operation. -- 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) "The Lord gave us farmers two strong hands so we could grab as much as we could with both of them." -- Joseph Heller, "Catch-22" -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
