wreak havoc with things like the debian-sys-maint user used to cleanly shutdown mysql.
Although this new d... for the new mysql root password and you probably used the same one that you were using from before.
===== Fix the debian sys maint p... etc/mysql/debian.cnf</code>
Now, log in to mysql using the root password you set above:
<code>mysql -p -u root # use your new password when prompted</code>
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