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

[marko.skarica]

I installed mysql on Solaris 9 (64 bit), and I'm getting the same exact problem. I've searched all over, tried several things recommended by others, but nothing is doing the trick. I am able to run the "mysql.server start" command as root and the server starts (even though I definitely used the --user=mysql parameter when I called the scripts/install_db_tables script), but when running the "bin/mysqld_safe --user=mysql" command to start the database, I get the error everyone else is getting.

mysqld started
InnoDB: Database was not shut down normally!
InnoDB: Starting crash recovery
InnoDB: Reading Tablespace information from the ibd files...
InnoDB: Restoring possible half-written data pages from the doublewrite
InnoDB: buffer...
InnoDB: Starting log scan based on checkpoint at
InnoDB: log sequence number 0 .
InnoDB: Doing recovery: scanned up to log sequence number 0 43655
InnoDB: [ERROR] Fatal error: Can't open and lock priviledge tables: Table 'mysql.host' doesn't exist
mysql ended

Please help, I've spent days on this, I don't even know where to look next.