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Thanks for the reply.<br />
I went through the forum link ownesleftfoot provided. However, the datadir in my.cnf is /var/lib/mysql, which is the default one.<br />
I cannot find the my.ini file using the whereis command. Also could you be more specific as what parameters to set?<br />
I am a total newbie to Linux so i guess there needs some time for me to wrap up some basic stuff.<br />
Thanks!
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Thanks for the reply.
I went through the forum link ownesleftfoot provided. However, the datadir in my.cnf is /var/lib/mysql, which is the default one.
I cannot find the my.ini file using the whereis command. Also could you be more specific as what parameters to set?
I am a total newbie to Linux so i guess there needs some time for me to wrap up some basic stuff.
Thanks!

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Hi experts,<br />
&nbsp; When I tried to start the MySQL that was shipped with Fedora 7, I got the &quot;[ERROR] Fatal error: Can't open and lock privilege tables: Table 'mysql.host' doesn't exist&quot;.<br />
&nbsp; I am not sure what to do about this. Could you please tell me what I should do to start this?<br />
&nbsp; Thanks!<br />
<br />
Michael
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Hi experts,
  When I tried to start the MySQL that was shipped with Fedora 7, I got the "[ERROR] Fatal error: Can't open and lock privilege tables: Table 'mysql.host' doesn't exist".
  I am not sure what to do about this. Could you please tell me what I should do to start this?
  Thanks!

Michael

Problem when starting MySQL shipped with Fedora 7

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