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Re: Installation->Configuration error: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost'
Posted by: Peter Brawley
Date: August 11, 2011 12:55PM

InstanceConfig is a convenience, butt it is not failsafe. You may have to postpone using it till you've solved this problem. Try starting the MySQL server manually in a commandline window, with for example ...

mysqld --default-file="c:\program files\mysql\mysql server 5.5\my.ini --console --skip-grant-tables

and debug that till it works (opening another commandline window for attempts to connect to the mysql client). Then with the server running, fix the root@localhost entry in mysql.user. Then try the above without --skip-grant-tables. Then save off the current copy of my.ini and try InstanceConfig again.

PB

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