ERROR 1698 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost'

Question

I\'m setting up a new server and keep running into this problem.

When I try to login to the MySQL database with the root user, I get the error:

Answer 1

I would suggest to remove the Mysql connection -

UPDATE-This is for Mysql version 5.5,if your version is different ,please change the first line accordingly

sudo apt-get purge mysql-server mysql-client mysql-common mysql-server-core-5.5 mysql-client-core-5.5
sudo rm -rf /etc/mysql /var/lib/mysql
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get autoclean

And Install Again But this time set a root password yourself. This will save a lot of effort.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mysql-server