On February 27, 2005 07:52, Paul wrote: > Hi, > > I seem to have two problems at the moment (on two different machines). > > On the laptop, it looks like MySQL is messed up. If I issue > > mysqladmin -u root password 'bluebuses' > > I get an error that it can't connect to localhost > > mysqladmin -u root -h T8.linux password 'bluebuses' > > gives an error > > mysqladmin: connect to server at 'T8.linux' failed > error: '#HY000Host 'localhost.localdomain' is not allowed to connect to > this MySQL server' > > (T8.linux is the machines name). > > Am I doing something wrong or is this broken? > > My /etc/hosts file reads > > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain T8.linux localhost T8 Have you turned on msqld? checkconfig --list | grep mysql chkconfig mysql --level 345 on service mysql start Can't help with the next one... sorry > > Second off is that udev fails to start on the other computer. While that > doesn't stop it from working, it does make DVD burning somewhat slow. > I'm using udev-050-7 with the 2.6.10-1.1063_FC4 kernel (1154 just > doesn't work - the machine will get to the desktop and then crash > requiring a power reset). > > Any clues on either of these? > > TTFN > > Paul Phil