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

In my case the path of MySQL data folder had a special character "ç" and it make me get...

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

I'm have removed all special characters and everything works.