mysql root lock-out

[zambizzi]

I'm not sure how this happened but I can't get into mysql. Either I typed the password wrong and can't figure out what it is or something else is going haywire.

Either way, I can't mysql -u root into mysql.

I thought perhaps uninstalling and re-installing would solve it but it still tells me "permission denied" after I've re-installed it.

Is there a file somewhere or something I need to purge/delete in order to "reset" me back to a new mysql installation where the root user doesn't have a password?

Thanks!

-v

[zambizzi]

Nevermind, solved it by searching high and low through the forums.

I did an ugly brute-force method by deleting everything in /var/lib/mysql/mysql