Has anyone installed MySQL on SuSE 9.1 Pro?

[Phil Bolton]

I'm trying to get MySQL 4.0.18 to run in a SuSE 9.1 Pro environment on a Pentium 4 box. I am using the YaST package manager to do the installation. I run into two problems:
1. If I run mysqld_safe & as system root I get the message,"Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysql 04100 10:10:57 mysqld ended

The log in /var/lib/mysql/mysqld.log shows:
041001 10:10:57 mysqld started
041001 10:10:57 Fatal error: Can't open privilege tables: Can't find file './mysql/host.frm' (errno: 13)
041001 10:10:57 Aborting
041001 10:10:57 /usr/sbin/mysqld: Shutdown complete

Yet, I see the host.frm file in /var/lib/mysql/mysql/host.frm as well as the columns_priv.*, db.*,func.*, tables_priv.* and user.* files

I've looked at the mysql_install_db script and I'm not that great at scripting but it looks like the $ldata variable is set correctly. I also looked at the /etc/my.cnf file and don't see anything that seems to be a problem, but I'm still learning scripting.

Can anyone assist?

Many thanks!
Phil