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

[Syed muhammad ali naqvi]

Hello Friend,
You can easily overcome this problem by removing the data directory before taking the backup of data if you have already have important data.
rm -rf /pathtodatadir
then
cd /usr/local/mysql1/bin
./mysql_install_db --user=mysql --ldata=/sqldata
./mysqld_safe --datadir=/sqldata --user=mysql &


I hope this will solve ur problem


Regards,
Turab