Not sure how I did it, but I succeeded in removing the password for
root. I can now connect to the database. But if I try to change the root
password of mysql using "sudo dpkg-reconfigure mysql-server-5.1", I get
:
stop: Unknown instance:
and another loop I can break with Ctrl+C. And the password
I will try to describe all what I have find on this problem which start
with the upgrade from 8.04 to 10.04.
First (I forgot how the problem began...), I remove mysql-server :
$ sudo apt-get remove mysql-server --purge
$ sudo apt-get autoremove
$ sudo apt-get autoclean
and I also remove the direc
