Can't open and lock privilege tables: Table 'mysql.user' doesn't exist
MysqlMysql 5.7Mysql Problem Overview
I installed MySQL community server 5.7.10 using binary zip. I extracted the zip in c:\mysql and created the data folder in c:\mysql\data. I created the config file as my.ini and placed it in c:\mysql (root folder of extracted zip). Below is the content of the my.ini file
# set basedir to your installation path
basedir=C:\mysql
# set datadir to the location of your data directory
datadir=C:\mysql\data
I'm trying to start MySQL using mysqld --console, but the process is aborted with the below error.
2015-12-29T18:04:01.141930Z 0 [ERROR] Fatal error: Can't open and lock privilege tables: Table 'mysql.user' doesn't exist
2015-12-29T18:04:01.141930Z 0 [ERROR] Aborting
Any help on this will be appreciated.
Mysql Solutions
Solution 1 - Mysql
You have to initialize the data directory by running the following command
mysqld --initialize [with random root password]
mysqld --initialize-insecure [with blank root password]
Solution 2 - Mysql
The mysql_install_db script also needs the datadir parameter:
mysql_install_db --user=root --datadir=$db_datapath
On Maria DB you use the install script mysql_install_db to install and initialize. In my case I use an environment variable for the data path. Not only does mysqld need to know where the data is (specified via commandline), but so does the install script.
Solution 3 - Mysql
mysqld --initialize to initialize the data directory then mysqld &
If you had already launched mysqld& without mysqld --initialize you might have to delete all files in your data directory
You can also modify /etc/my.cnf to add a custom path to your data directory like this :
[mysqld]
...
datadir=/path/to/directory
Solution 4 - Mysql
As suggested above, i had similar issue with mysql-5.7.18,
i did this in this way
- Executed this command from "MYSQL_HOME\bin\mysqld.exe --initialize-insecure"
- then started "MYSQL_HOME\bin\mysqld.exe"
- Connect workbench to this localhost:3306 with username 'root'
- then executed this query "SET PASSWORD FOR 'root'@'localhost' = 'root';"
password was also updated successfully.
Solution 5 - Mysql
I had the same problem. For some reason --initialize did not work.
After about 5 hours of trial and error with different parameters, configs and commands I found out that the problem was caused by the file system.
I wanted to run a database on a large USB HDD drive. Drives larger than 2 TB are GPT partitioned! Here is a bug report with a solution:
https://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=28913
In short words: Add the following line to your my.ini:
innodb_flush_method=normal
I had this problem with mysql 5.7 on Windows.
Solution 6 - Mysql
My problem was caused by an incorrect db restore.
When I dumed the db it also picked up the system mysql tables because I added a space after -p as mentioned here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41488133/mysqldump-is-dumping-undesired-system-tables
Launching the docker instance would work, then I'd restore (and corrupt) the db and it would still keep running, but after restarting it would Exit with error code 1.
The solution was to dump and restore properly without the system tables.
Solution 7 - Mysql
I face the same issue with version Mysql 5.7.33 when the server has rebooted. I fix it by copy other server user files scp /var/lib/mysql/mysql/user.* root@dest:/var/lib/mysql/mysql.