Re: Newbie: Access Denied trouble

[Sasha Pachev]

> Here's the cut-and-paste of my terminal:
> 
> [root@iaria bree]# killall mysqld
> mysqld: no process killed
> 

This means that mysqld was not running - that's what we want anyway

> [root@iaria bree]# /usr/bin/safe_mysqld --skip-grant
> Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysql
> 
> [root@iaria bree]# mysql
> mysql
> ERROR 1045: Access denied for user: 'root@localhost' (Using password:
> NO)

This is very strange. Looks like your safe_mysqld ignored --skip-grant.
Lets do this: repeat everything again and post the contents of
'hostname`.err found in the mysql data directory ( probably
/usr/local/var )

>
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