I'm trying to connect to my DB in Ubuntu remotely but I receive error message when trying to mysql -u root -p
:
Found option without preceding group in config file: /etc/mysql/my.cnf at line: 1
my.cnf looks like:
[mysqld]
user = mysql
socket = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
port = 3306
basedir = /usr
datadir = /var/lib/mysql
tmpdir = /tmp
bind-address = 0.0.0.0
key_buffer = 16M
max_allowed_packet = 16M
thread_stack = 192K
thread_cache_size = 8
myisam-recover = BACKUP
query_cache_limit = 1M
query_cache_size = 16M
log_error = /var/log/mysql/error.log
expire_logs_days = 10
max_binlog_size = 100M
[client]
port = 3306
socket = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
[mysqld_safe]
socket = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
nice = 0
[mysqldump]
quick
quote-names
max_allowed_packet = 16M
[mysql]
[isamchk]
key_buffer = 16M
I had this problem when I installed MySQL 8.0.15 with the community installer. The my.ini file that came with the installer did not work correctly after it had been edited. I did a full manual install by downloading that zip folder. I was able to create my own my.ini file containing only the parameters that I was concerned about and it worked.
include the parameters in that my.ini file that you are concerned about. so something like this(just ensure that there is already a folder created for the datadir or else initialization won't work):
[mysqld]
basedire=C:\program files\MySQL\MySQL8.0
datadir=D:\MySQL\Data
....continue with whatever parameters you want to include
initialize the data directory by running these two commands in the command prompt:
cd C:\program files\MySQL\MySQL8.0\bin
mysqld --default-file=C:\program files\MySQL\MySQL8.0\my.ini --initialize
install the MySQL server as a service by running these two commands:
cd C:\program files\MySQL\MySQL8.0\bin
mysqld --install --default-file=C:\program files\MySQL\MySQL8.0\my.ini
finally, start the server for the first time by running these two commands:
cd C:\program files\MySQL\MySQL8.0\bin
mysqld --console
Just add [mysqld]
as first line in the /etc/mysql/my.cnf
file.
[mysqld]
default-time-zone = "+08:00"
Afterwards, remember to restart your MySQL Service.
sudo mysqld stop
sudo mysqld start
it is because of letters or digit infront of [mysqld] just check the leeters or digit anything is not required before [mysqld]
it may be something like
0[mysqld] then this error will occur
What worked for me:
Source: Stackoverflow.com