Is it ok to reinstall?

[smoked1]

I had some issues with DA and I did a complete reinstall on top of my existing install. It seems that the only thing that DA kept is the DNS settings. Has anyone else ever had to do this and if so does it cause any problems that I should know about?

 

[smoked1]

After the reinstall mysql will no longer start. The error I get in mysqld.log is:

070303 22:37:11 mysqld started
070303 22:37:11 InnoDB: Database was not shut down normally!
InnoDB: Starting crash recovery.
InnoDB: Reading tablespace information from the .ibd files...
InnoDB: Restoring possible half-written data pages from the doublewrite
InnoDB: buffer...
070303 22:37:11 InnoDB: Starting log scan based on checkpoint at
InnoDB: log sequence number 0 43634.
InnoDB: Doing recovery: scanned up to log sequence number 0 43634
070303 22:37:11 InnoDB: Flushing modified pages from the buffer pool...
070303 22:37:11 InnoDB: Started; log sequence number 0 43634
070303 22:37:11 [ERROR] Fatal error: Can't open privilege tables: Table 'mysql.host' doesn't exist
070303 22:37:11 mysqld ended

Does anyone know how I can fix this?

 

[nobaloney]

The DirectAdmin install script warns you right at the beginning that it will delete everything and gives you the choice of continuing or not.

There are a lot of files that have to be rebuilt. I believe that there are some posts on these forums that might give you some direction.

Jeff