Re: lost root password trouble

[Gerald Clark]

Nick Wilson wrote:

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>* and then James Carrier declared....
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>>It'll be something like:
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>>/usr/bin/safe_mysqld  --defaults-file=/etc/my.cnf --skip-grant-tables
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>Well, that's certainly progress of sorts :-)
>It's just 'hanging' now. It says 'starting mysqld daemon with databases
>from /var/lib/mysql' and just hangs....
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It just wrote that message over the command prompt.
It is not hung.

Just hit enter.