<p> Quoting scott@tbwifi.ca:</p><p>
> I have been trying to deal with problems that I am having with MySQL on<br
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> Mandriva 2006. I am using MySQL for Mythtv. After installing and<br />
> uninstalling various versions of MySQL trying to make things work I now<br
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> have version 4 installed. 40-4.0.26-1 to be exact. I've installed MySQL,<br
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> MySQL-client, and MySQL common. Now I believe that I have a mess because<br
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> in services there is a listing for mysql and mysqld. Neither of them
seem<br />
> to want to start or stop cleanly and show up as [FAILED] in MCC
services.<br />
> How do I clean things up so that I can start the server and connect to
it?<br />
> Note if you didn't figure it out I am definitely a newbee to this stuff,<br
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> but I was albe to make things work on my previous installation of
Mythtv.<br />
> If anyone has some pointers I would sure appreciate it. I am at a<br />
> standstill.<br />
><br />
> Thx!<br />
> Scott<br />
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></p><p></p><p>Scott-</p><p>So is your mysql server running (try
#/sbin/service mysqld status) if your server is running then you can try to
login manualy with a command like: $mysql -h localhost -u mythtv -pmythtv
mythconverg If you can log into the mysql server then your goldin. if the
server is not running, what are the logs? can you reinstall mysql (uninstall
& reinstall)? do you have anydata in the mysql server at this
time?</p><p>let me know</p><p>-Matt</p><br />