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  1. Bug #248067
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Comment 1 for bug 248067

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Mathias Gug (mathiaz) wrote : Re: [Bug 248067] [NEW] mysql server can't be started: mysql.host doesn't exist

On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 10:12:04AM -0000, Torsten Bronger wrote:
> daemon.log says:
>
> Jul 13 11:18:03 wilson mysqld_safe[7307]: started
> Jul 13 11:18:03 wilson mysqld[7311]: 080713 11:18:03 InnoDB: Started; log sequence number 0 43685
> Jul 13 11:18:03 wilson mysqld[7311]: 080713 11:18:03 [ERROR] Fatal error: Can't open and lock privilege tables: Table 'mysql.host' doesn't exist
> Jul 13 11:18:03 wilson mysqld_safe[7322]: ended
>

Could you check if you have apparmor messages in /var/log/kernel.log ?
Did you change the default mysql.cnf file ? Where are your data file
located (in /var/lib/mysql) ?

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