Fatal error: Can't open and lock privilege tables: Table 'mysql.host' doesn't exist

Question

I am on a server that has afresh install on RHEL 5. I was able to install Apache and PHP just fine., but I am having serious trouble with my MySQL installation. I tried t

Answer 1

After chown and chgrp'ing /var/lib/mysql per the answer by @Bad Programmer, you may also have to execute the following command:

sudo mysql_install_db --user=mysql --ldata=/var/lib/mysql

Then restart your mysqld.