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

When download mysql zip version, if run mysqld directly, you'll get this error: 2016-02-18T07:23:48.318481Z 0 [ERROR] Fatal error: Can't open and lock privilege tables: Table 'mysql.user' doesn't exist 2016-02-18T07:23:48.319482Z 0 [ERROR] Aborting

You have to run below command first: mysqld --initialize

Make sure your data folder is empty before this command.