Thanks, that was helpful.
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Jason T. Slack-Moehrle
On Monday, February 6, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Larry Martell wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 5:51 PM, Jason T. Slack-Moehrle
> <slackmoehrle@gmail.com (mailto:slackmoehrle@gmail.com)> wrote:
> > Hi Guys,
> >
> > I installed CentOS 6 and installed 'yum install mysql mysql-devel mysql-server'
> >
> > When I try and start MySQL I get:
> > 120206 16:42:07 mysqld_safe Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysql
> > /usr/libexec/mysqld: Table 'mysql.plugin' doesn't exist
> > 120206 16:42:07 [ERROR] Can't open the mysql.plugin table. Please run mysql_upgrade to create it.
> > 120206 16:42:07 InnoDB: Started; log sequence number 0 44233
> > 120206 16:42:07 [ERROR] Fatal error: Can't open and lock privilege tables: Table 'mysql.host' doesn't exist
> > 120206 16:42:07 mysqld_safe mysqld from pid file /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid ended
> >
> >
> >
> > if I go look in /var/lib/mysql I see:
> >
> > -rw-rw----. 1 mysql mysql 10485760 Feb 5 16:53 ibdata1
> > -rw-rw----. 1 mysql mysql 5242880 Feb 6 16:42 ib_logfile0
> > -rw-rw----. 1 mysql mysql 5242880 Feb 5 16:33 ib_logfile1
> > drwx------. 2 mysql mysql 4096 Feb 5 16:55 mysql
> > drwx------. 2 mysql mysql 4096 Feb 5 16:55 test
> >
> >
> >
> > and the 'mysql' is empty.
> >
> > I dont understand, I have never had this issue. I assume that the 'mysql' directory should contain something?
> >
> > So with this, I cannot do anything to get MySQL going!
> >
> > I tried a 'yum upgrade' to make sure everything was up to date.
> >
> > [root@www mysql]# cat /etc/*release*
> > CentOS release 6.2 (Final)
> > cat: /etc/lsb-release.d: Is a directory
> > CentOS release 6.2 (Final)
> > CentOS release 6.2 (Final)
> > cpe:/o:centos:linux:6:GA
> >
> >
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> > -Jason
>
>
>
> Try running mysql_install_db and then starting the server.
>
> -larry
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