I just installed Slackware 10.1 Still need to install some missing
needed libraries, but I think that's unrelated.

Every time it boots up, or I try "/etc/rc.d/rc.mysqld start" I get
this:

Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysql
STOPPING server from pid file /var/run/mysql/mysql.pid
mysqld ended

In /var/lib/mysql I have:
ib_arch_log_00000000
ib_logfile0
ib_logfile1
ibdata1
localhost.err

In /var/lib/mysql/localhost.err I have the following:
---
mysqld started
InnoDB: started
Fatal error: can't open privilige tables: Table 'mysql.host' do$
aborting

InnoDB: Starting shutdown...
InnoDB: Shutdown completed

/usr/libexec/mysqld: shutdown complete

mysqld ended
---

Any suggestions what in the world I should do? What I should try or
look at for more info?

Thanks for any help!
Liam