Johns Blog » MySQL http://blogs.gnome.org/johncarr Making your brain invert and fall out of your ear since 2007 Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:59:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Finally fixed mysql http://blogs.gnome.org/johncarr/2007/10/16/finally-fixed-mysql/ http://blogs.gnome.org/johncarr/2007/10/16/finally-fixed-mysql/#comments Tue, 16 Oct 2007 10:05:56 +0000 John Carr http://blogs.gnome.org/johncarr/?p=35 Took my sweet time but i finally fixed my mysql problem – at some point when I set my mail server up i screwed up the debian-sys-maint account. This meant that the init script kept failing and apt-get upgrade wouldn’t work.

If anyone else hits a problem with their debian-sys-maint account, you can find its password in /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. You can then mysql -u root -p and do something like:

USE mysql;
UPDATE users SET password=PASSWORD('password-from-debian.cnf') WHERE user='debian-sys-maint';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

Solved.

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