Hi,

I'm new to MySQL, and I'm experiencing a fundamental problem setting it up.

When I follow the instructions for setting the password for root (4.12.4 of the manual), mysqld causes an invalid page fault in kernel32.dll and shuts down.

Although mysqladmin prints a message saying that the root password wasn't changed because the connection to the server was lost, any subsequent tries at accessing mysql result in "Access denied for user: root@localhost (using passord:NO)" so my only option is to reinstall MySQL and try again.

I've tried several times and the server always crashes when I try to change the password as described above. I'm using mysql 3.23.30-gamma, and I've installed MySQL to D:\ (the config files seem to contain the correct paths already).

Any help/ideas/tips would be much appreciated.