MySQL refuses to work

Several people in this list have reported success with getting MySQL to run. The most popular "trick" was to get the o version of glibc, which I did. I'm not sure if most people build MySQL from source (tar.gz) or from SRPM. I tried it with 3.21.30rh50 and with 3.22.19a, which is the current release. In both cases, I am unable to connect to the server locally, which is not what I experienced on a i386 RH5.1 box.

I've worked at this for many hours and can create tables with mysqladmin, but cannot seem to do anything that requires a database connection. Examples:

> mysqladmin ping

mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed error: ''
> mysqladmin -h mysite.com ping

mysqladmin: connect to server at 'mysite.com' failed error: 'Lost connection to MySQL server during query'
> mysqladmin -h mysite.com reload

mysqladmin: connect to server at 'mysite.com' failed error: 'Lost connection to MySQL server during query'
> mysqladmin -h mysite.com status

mysqladmin: connect to server at 'mysite.com' failed error: 'Lost connection to MySQL server during query' > mysql
ERROR: >From another box, I get this reply when I try to telnet in: GHost 'myisp.com' is not allowed to connect to this MySQL serverConnection closed by foreign host.

This is a brand new install - not an upgrade. I'm running the 2.1.24 kernel R4 release on a 7200/90. Is there a setting I should be using in the SPEC file when I build my RPMs, or could I have missed a required configuration somewhere?

I'd appreciate any tips.

Thanks!

glen_stewart_at_associate.com Received on Thu 04 Mar 1999 04:30:55 AM GMT