Comments on: Change and Reset MySQL root Password

By: Matt J.

Matt J. — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:19:12 +0000

I see it worked under Ubuntu for ‘trail’, but it did not work for me.

On the contrary: even after following Rajesh’s suggestion to use “–skip-grant-tables” instead of “-skip-grant-tables”, even after correcting the erroneous reference to “/etc/rc.d/init.d” for Linux (my Ubuntu has no such directory, it has only “/etc/init.d/”) I get strange error messages by the time I get to step 7.

It seems either one of two things goes wrong. Either 1) the server process starts, then soon dies or 2) if it finds the process running at all, it still gives me “ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denies for ‘root’@'localhost’ (using password: NO)”

What has my even more baffled is that I get this last message when trying to start and stop mysql!

Finally, the instructions to edit mysql are highly misleading: one cannot put “–skip-grant-tables” at the END of the line, since the line ends with redirection and ‘&’. The line now reads:

“/usr/bin/mysqld_safe –skip-grant-tables > /dev/null 2>&1 &”

I am running the very latest released Ubuntu, with all updates as of yesterday.

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By: ap

ap — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:35:14 +0000

@trail: Worked like a charm, thanks!

By: trail

trail — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 09:22:05 +0000

worked for me on ubuntu, in just one line:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure mysql-server-5.0

By: Rajesh Cheethirala

Rajesh Cheethirala — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:46:21 +0000

On ubuntu, command is mysqld_safe –-skip-grant-tables &

Extra dash is required so mysql can parse it correctly.

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