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chipyoung
September 28th, 2006, 04:41 PM
I am trying to update the root password at the local host level on a new install. I was able to complete the command;

sudo mysqladmin -u root password ******

but when I do the following as stated in the Ubuntu server manual

sudo mysqladmin -u root -h localhost password newrootsqlpassword

I get the following message;

mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
error: 'Lost connection to MySQL server during query'

I am using the correct localhost which I checked in the database.

It's very strange because I just went through this on another PC with Ubuntu installed (version 6.06 i386 iso desktop) and had no problems. I am running ubuntu 6.06 alternate i386 iso with a server install.

Thank you in advance,
Chip