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On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 05:34:43 -0700 (PDT), plenty900@yahoo.com wrote:
>
>> Is there any interesting information in the error log file?
>
> It turns out, my [hostname].err file shows that mysqld can't find a
> file called host.frm.
>
> I don't recall such a file when I recently installed MySQL under
> Windows.

It's part of the `host` table in the `mysql` database. Rerunning
mysql_install_db may fix the problem. Check your my.cnf file for
appropriate values for --datadir and --basedir.

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