On 4/20/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying to set up for running MythTV. Part of that is to get > mysql going and I guess I need to give it a root password. The > following is what's happeing. > <SNIP> > > I haven't Googled on this as I wanted to catch the error messages for > later and an email is as good a way to do that as any. > > Thanks in advance if you have a simple answer. I have not edited any > mysql config files by hand. > > Cheers, > Mark >
mysql is at least alive. Any ideas appreciated. Thanks! dragonfly ~ # /usr/bin/mysqladmin ping mysqld is alive dragonfly ~ # /usr/bin/mysqladmin processlist +----+------+-----------+----+---------+------+-------+------------------+ | Id | User | Host | db | Command | Time | State | Info | +----+------+-----------+----+---------+------+-------+------------------+ | 10 | root | localhost | | Query | 0 | | show processlist | +----+------+-----------+----+---------+------+-------+------------------+ dragonfly ~ # /usr/bin/mysqladmin status Uptime: 1291 Threads: 1 Questions: 16 Slow queries: 0 Opens: 6 Flush tables: 1 Open tables: 0 Queries per second avg: 0.012 dragonfly ~ # /usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root -h dragonfly password xyz /usr/bin/mysqladmin: connect to server at 'dragonfly' failed error: 'Lost connection to MySQL server during query' dragonfly ~ # -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
