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5.7 Upgrade and Resolving ERROR 1130 Host ‘localhost’ is Not Allowed to Connect

I recently upgraded an instance to 5.7.3 the other day, and ran into an error, so I wanted to share the resolution for it here.

In my case, I was upgrading 5.7.1 to 5.7.3. However, this will apply to anyone wanting to upgrade from pre-5.7.2 (including 5.6/5.5) to 5.7.2+.

I performed the upgrade, in-place, and restarted mysqld. This was fine. However, then I attempted to connect via the command-line, and received the following error:

shell> mysql -uroot -ppass -P3310
ERROR 1130 (HY000): Host 'localhost' is not allowed
to connect to this MySQL server

Searching the net, you’ll mostly find RTM replies, which were all accurate as far as I could tell. In all of those prior reported cases, the issues were expected behavior and the issues were ultimately user error.

Of course I double-checked my config and data files. I knew I didn’t change anything in the user table, or any system table, for that matter. …

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