Re: Unable to reset root password

[Peter Brawley]

> Query OK, 0 rows affected. Rows matched 4, Changed: 0, and Warnings 0.

That tells you it did not find a row where user='root', which in turn suggests the row has been edited or deleted. Try again with --skip-grat-tables, this time execute ...

select host, user, authentication_string
from mysql.user;

... and post the result here.