On 07/29/2012 04:42 PM, Prashanth Kasula wrote: > is there any way where we can communicate to fedora directly You are communicating with fedora directly. Everyone on this mailing list is "Fedora". Can we assume that you've enabled and started the mysqld.service using systemctl ? Are you aware that there is no password in the initial startup? As root did you do this....to show there is no password? [root@f17x ~]# mysqladmin status Uptime: 3861 Threads: 2 Questions: 52 Slow queries: 0 Opens: 33 Flush tables: 1 Open tables: 26 Queries per second avg: 0.013 Then did you do this? [root@f17x ~]# mysqladmin password New password: whatever Confirm new password: whatever And your error message was???? -- Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century. -- Dame Edna Everage -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org