The server at URL mysql://gnucash at 192.168.1.80/gnucash experienced an error or encountered bad or corrupt data.

[David Carlson]

On 5/10/2014 5:39 PM, John Ralls wrote:
> On May 10, 2014, at 5:52 PM, Aaron Artmann <aartmann at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 4:18 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 10 May 2014 22:06, Aaron <aartmann at comcast.net> wrote:
>>>> Good Afternoon,
>>>>
>>>> I have been searching the internet and I have been unable to find a solution to my problem. When I try and connect to my MySQL database (which is on another machine) it gives me the following error "The server at URL mysql://gnucash@192.168.1.80/gnucash experienced an error or encountered bad or corrupt data." I have checked the gnucash.trace file which contains the following 2 messages
>>>>
>>>> * 16:00:30 CRIT <gnc.backend.dbi> gnc_dbi_unlock: assertion 'dbi_conn_error( dcon, NULL ) == 0' failed
>>>> * 16:00:53 CRIT <gnc.backend.dbi> [gnc_dbi_mysql_session_begin()] Unable to connect to database 'gnucash'
>>>>
>>>> The dialog box that has the settings to connect to the database is located at http://venomslair.com/dialog.png
>>>>
>>>> I know that I can connect to the database and I have been able to but since the upgrade I haven't been able to. I am running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS in VMWare and the database is on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS server.
>>>>
>>>> Can someone shed some light on how I can get this to reconnect to the database?
>>> Try to connect to the db using the mysql command line program.  Then
>>> you can see whether it is gnucash or mysql that is giving the problem.
>>>
>>> Colin
>> I was able to connect to the database via the command line from the
>> same linux that is trying to connect via gnucash.
> This is generally a privilege issue: GnuCash needs to create databases.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
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This may be a very dumb question.  If MYSQL is using a 192.168.1.xxx
address as opposed to localhost, would not that imply that the file is
on a different computer?  This could still be permissions, but perhaps
on a different level.

David C