Hi, If I had to guess - I would say that you do not have permissions for the datadir.
Try the following: Chown -R mysql:root /usr/local/mysql/data (or wherever your datadir is....) And Chmod -R 660 /usr/local/mysql/data (or wherever your datadir is....) Cheers, Andrew Sql, query, wibble -----Original Message----- From: Yoann [mailto:linux-yoann@;ifrance.com] Sent: Thursday, 17 October 2002 21:33 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: mysql 4.04beta hi all, I just finished to compile mysql 4.04 beta but when I start mysqld I have this error # mysqld -u mysql & [1] 19034 22:10:55 babar:/usr/web/mysql# 021017 22:10:55 InnoDB: Out of memory in additional memory pool. InnoDB: InnoDB will start allocating memory from the OS. InnoDB: You may get better performance if you configure a bigger InnoDB: value in the MySQL my.cnf file for InnoDB: innodb_additional_mem_pool_size. 021017 22:10:56 InnoDB: Database was not shut down normally. InnoDB: Starting recovery from log files... InnoDB: Starting log scan based on checkpoint at InnoDB: log sequence number 0 37082 InnoDB: Doing recovery: scanned up to log sequence number 0 37082 021017 22:10:56 InnoDB: Flushing modified pages from the buffer pool... InnoDB: Creating foreign key constraint system tables InnoDB: Foreign key constraint system tables created 021017 22:10:56 InnoDB: Started 021017 22:10:56 Fatal error: Can't open privilege tables: Table 'mysql.host' doesn't exist is it a bug or I have to do another thing before lauch mysqld ? thanks for you help yoann --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php