how to drop database

Question

i used the following sytanx

drop database filmo; 

and got the following error:

ERROR 1010 (HY000): Error dropping database         


        

Answer 1

Got same error. This fixed it for me in Ubuntu 10.04:

stop mysql

rm -rf /var/lib/mysql/XXXXX

start mysql

Where XXXXX is the offending database name.