Hello,

My goal is to setup and configure the "Community MySQL server" on
my "Vista" laptop. I want to run the server and clients on the same
"machine" using the "loopback" IP addr (127.0.0.1) to talk between
MySQL clients and the MySQL server.

1) When I run the Config Wizard, I get the following message:

"The security settings could not be applied. Error number 2003.
Can't connect to the MySQL server". I checked via the Vista Task
Manager and there was a MySQL server instance running. I am probably
more of a POSIX API programmer .. in any case I remember that on
Windows 2000 that there was some kind of "system log" .. can't find it
on Vista(through the Control Panel) to get a better error message. Can
somebody point to the "system log" or help me with the error message?


2) I finally tried to run the "mysql_install_db" script to
"instantiate" a MySQL database instance. I ran this script from a
"http://www.cygwin.com" shell because the script is a Unix script. I
got the error: "FATAL ERROR: Could not find SQL file '/
mysql_system_tables.sql' in @pkgdatadir@ or inside C:/Program."

Suggestions please.

Kind regards, Vasya

"Vasya" <vigalchin (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote

There probably is a FAQ, but this newsgroup is dedicated to Microsoft SQL
Server, so any help here will be limited.

(though I'll recommend looking at SQL Server Express 2005).

Yes, there is an event log. I don't have Vista so not sure if they've moved
it but on XP you can go to My Computer, right click, click on MANAGE and
drill down from there.

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