MySQL Bugs: #59960: missing MySQL super user privileges for root

Bug #59960	missing MySQL super user privileges for root
Submitted:	5 Feb 2011 4:33	Modified:	6 Mar 2011 14:52
Reporter:	aswathi p	Email Updates:
Status:	No Feedback	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Server	Severity:	S1 (Critical)
Version:	MySQL 5.1	OS:	Linux
Assigned to:		CPU Architecture:	Any

Description:
I have a Linux Ubuntu server with installs MySQL 5.1. I access this server from a remote Windows machine through SSH. I want to access its database using PremiumSoft Navicat software. 

I tried to access it using the 'root' user. But it gave an error "2003 - can't connect to MySQL server on 192.168.0.89".

To correct this error following steps where done
1.  bind-address = 0.0.0.0 of /etc/mysql/my.cnf
2.  restart mysql
3.  grant all privileges on *.* to 'root'@'192.168.0.89';
4.  flush privileges;

After this i donot what happened, I logged in as 'root' user and
'show databases;' command displays only 'information_schema'.

if i give 'use mysql;' it shows "ERROR 1044 (42000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' to database 'mysql' "

It seems that there is some problem in user privileges. Then i reinstalled MySQL and tried with 'root' user and repeated the 'show databases'. But the problem still exists.

Now what should i do? Please help!

How to repeat:
actually i donot have an exact idea of what caused this error.

Please, login as root as you did before and send the output of:

select current_user();

select user, host from mysql.user;

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