Pardon my posting as soon as I subscribed to this list, but I have a problem that's really annoying me. I just installed MySQL on a virtual server account that I have, and for some reason, mysql refuses to list my databases or tables, although they seem to be there. I've included a log below, which may be somewhat lengthy, but hopefully should explain what I'm seeing.

Does anyone have any ideas what could be happening here?

$ mysql -u root '-pMyPassword' Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Your MySQL connection id is 11 to server version: 3.23.51-log

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer.

mysql> show databases; +----------+ | Database | +----------+ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | +----------+ 7 rows in set (0.00 sec)