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I'm a archlinux user. Traying to solve another problem I follow the instructions of this post. Now when I try to install mariadb again the following message appears

mysql.user table already exists!

even when I eliminate everything related to mariadb. So I skip that and continue to the others steps of the installation, but I can't go too far because I can't create a new user. The following message appears

Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES)

and

Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO)

Any idea about how to solve this?

I tried write in the my.cnf file the skip-grant-tables option, but it didn't work.

Oscar Amarilla
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  • Reinstalling server software does not mean that all databases are gone forever. Have you deleted all data from disk? On my Debian system all databases are in `/var/lib/mysql` – pierpy Nov 29 '22 at 22:33
  • I deleted and uninstalled everything I found related to sql, but nothing change. – Oscar Amarilla Dec 01 '22 at 13:00

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