MySQL and udev

[Phil Savoie]

On February 27, 2005 07:52, Paul wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I seem to have two problems at the moment (on two different machines).
>
> On the laptop, it looks like MySQL is messed up. If I issue
>
> mysqladmin -u root password 'bluebuses'
>
> I get an error that it can't connect to localhost
>
> mysqladmin -u root -h T8.linux password 'bluebuses'
>
> gives an error
>
> mysqladmin: connect to server at 'T8.linux' failed
> error: '#HY000Host 'localhost.localdomain' is not allowed to connect to
> this MySQL server'
>
> (T8.linux is the machines name).
>
> Am I doing something wrong or is this broken?
>
> My /etc/hosts file reads
>
> 127.0.0.1   localhost.localdomain    T8.linux    localhost    T8

Have you turned on msqld?  checkconfig --list | grep mysql
chkconfig mysql --level 345 on
service mysql start

Can't help with the next one... sorry


>
> Second off is that udev fails to start on the other computer. While that
> doesn't stop it from working, it does make DVD burning somewhat slow.
> I'm using udev-050-7 with the 2.6.10-1.1063_FC4 kernel (1154 just
> doesn't work - the machine will get to the desktop and then crash
> requiring a power reset).
>
> Any clues on either of these?
>
> TTFN
>
> Paul
Phil