On 3 February 2012 07:22, <nux at li.nux.ro> wrote: > Bob Hoffman writes: > > When you run into this kind of problems you can just remove or rename > /var/lib/mysql and restart the service, it should "reset" you back to > square one. Of course, make a backup first! > Sometimes you need to run mysql-db-install as well if you have del'd all of the /var/lib/mysql/ directory mike