On my 1st try:
Creating system account...
Giving 'system' account 'admin' priv on all areas...
Couldn't grant system account admin privs
On my 2nd try:
Creating system account...
Already exists.
Modifying 'system' account...
Giving 'system' account 'admin' priv on all areas...
Couldn't grant system account admin privs
It was able to add the user, but not grant privs.
update-db.pl ran just fine and all of the database tables are installed (afaik). I'm guessing I overlooked some tiny thing, but I can't for the life of me figure it out!
Installation Notes:
livejournal - livejournal-2002121200.tar.gz
mysqld - 3.23.54
perl - 5.8.0
httpd - 1.3.27
mod_perl - 1.27
os - linux 2.4.18-27
dist - Red Hat 8.0