Win 7 x64, 8GB. Installed in c:\xampp.
Quick background - as a profession, over 46 years in computer service, support, and training, with the past 19 years as a web developer. However, this stuff is new to me, as in the past my servers have always been managed by 'the server guys'.
I had 1.7.3 running OK. Decided to upgrade to 1.7.4. Now the MySQL service will not start at all (Apache does run). mysql_error.log shows...
110605 19:06:05 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled.
InnoDB: The InnoDB memory heap is disabled
InnoDB: Mutexes and rw_locks use Windows interlocked functions
InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.3
110605 19:06:05 InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, size = 16.0M
110605 19:06:05 InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool
110605 19:06:08 InnoDB: highest supported file format is Barracuda.
InnoDB: 127 rollback segment(s) active.
110605 19:06:09 InnoDB: 1.1.4 started; log sequence number 46429
110605 19:06:09 [ERROR] Fatal error: Can't open and lock privilege tables: Incorrect key file for table 'user'; try to repair it
When trying to start MySQL the CP shows...
ERROR: Status check failure [3]
This program must be run from your XAMPP root directory.
Which program must be run from there?
Before 1.7.4 I uninstalled 1.7.3 using the XAMPP uninstaller, and had it save htdocs and mysql/data. Then I installed 1.7.4 to find the above failures.
Quick assistance needed - and appreciated - as I'm running out of time to complete some on-line training that requires MySQL to work.
Thank you!