MySQL install troubles.

[Jeff Schroeder]

Eric:

> I chowned everything under /usr/local to mysqld:mysqld

That's probably not a good idea.  Better to chown only the files that 
MySQL expects to be owned by itself.  Since /usr/local has tons of 
other software installed in it (probably) you don't want all of it to 
be owned by the MySQL user.

> ERROR 1049 (42000): Unknown database 'mysql'
> FATAL ERROR: Upgrade failed

It sounds like mysql_install_db failed.  It should create a database 
called 'mysql' which contains the master user/privilege table as well 
as other top-level stuff.  If you go into the directory where the 
database files are actually stored, you should see a 'mysql' 
subdirectory there (as well as subdirectories for all of your other 
databases).  If not, then it wasn't created properly.

Jeff