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

[Patrick Crews]

You need to pass two extra parameters to mysql_install_db (especially on Solaris via the .pkg system).

Try scripts/mysql_install_db --datadir=<path_to_datadir> --basedir=<path_to_mysql_installation> --user=mysql

This worked for me where
<path_to_datadir> = /opt/mysql/mysql/data (the default)
<patch_to_mysql_installation> = /opt/mysql/mysql (also default)

Change these as needed to reflect your setup.

After this, you should be able to to start the server per the manual.