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

I just met the same problem with mysql 5.7 on OSX:

rm -rf {datadir}
mysqld --initialize --datadir {datadir}
mysqld --datadir {datadir}