From: Michael Widenius Date: March 30 1999 9:05am Subject: Unable to start the binary build version of mysqld. List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/1178 Message-Id: <14080.37760.834907.2795@monty.pp.sci.fi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >>>>> "root" == root writes: >> Description: root> When I ran "configure" the "mysqld" exited on startup. I also tried the root> safe_mysqld with the same results. root> The following is what was contained in the error file "corp1.err", corp1 root> is the correct machine name of this server (corp1.indyweb.net): root> mysqld started on Sun Mar 28 09:04:09 EST 1999 root> 990328 9:04:09 /usr/local/mysql-3.22.20a-pc-linux-gnu-i686/bin/mysqld: root> Table 'mysql.host' doesn't exist root> mysqld ended on Sun Mar 28 09:04:09 EST 1999 Hi! Please read the installation section in the MySQL manual! The problem is that you haven't executed the mysql_install_db script! Regards, Monty