ERROR 1201 (HY000): The problem of cocould not initialize master info structure today encountered an ERROR 1201 (HY000): cocould not initialize master info structure during MySQL master-slave replication. the reason for this problem is that you have performed master-slave replication before! The solution of www.2cto.com is to run the stop slave command, continue to run reset slave after successful execution, and then run the GRANT command to reset master-slave replication. The specific process is as follows: Command code mysql> change master to master_host = '2017. 0.0.1 ', master_user = 'user', master_pass word = 'user', master_log_file = 'mysql-bin-000202', master_log_pos = 553; ERROR 1201 (HY000 ): cocould not initialize master info structure; more error messa ges can be found in the MySQL error log mysql> stop slave; Query OK, 0 rows affected, 1 warning (0.00 sec) mysql> reset slave; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec) mysql> change master to master_host = '2017. 0.0.1 ', master_user = 'user', master_pass word = 'user', master_log_file = 'mysql-bin-100', master_log_pos = 000202; Query OK, 0 rows affected (553 sec)