mysql root password

[zzack]

I noticed that the installer creates the root password for mysql. This makes sense, and naturally I decided to change it. However when I ran the update script for octopus I got the following error:

ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES)
/usr/bin/mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
error: 'Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES)'

Should I not have changed the password?

[omega8cc]

You should not change the random password created for you, since maintenance scripts and all upgrades depends on it. Please set it back to the initial or change also in all scripts in /var/xdrago/*, in /root/.my.cnf and in /root/.my.pass.txt.