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

1) rm -rf /var/lib/mysql/data/*** keep the data dir , rm the contents of data/

2) use

 mysql -uxxx -pyyy
   $ drop database data;

then it would be ok to recreate the data database again. hopefully it will help, Attention , direct remove data dir is useless, whatever you restart mysqld or not .