Save As MySQL is crashing gnucash

[Robert Heller]

At Thu, 25 Nov 2010 22:59:47 -0000 "Ian X Waddington" <iwaddox at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Hi
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> On a Windows 7 machine I am running gnucash 2.3.17 and have just installed
> MySql 5.1.53 
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> When I select file-save-as (with a new blank file of an existing test file)
> I get the MySQL form to fill in and choose localhost, gnucash, (made up
> userid), (made up password) - gnucash immediately crashes and windows 7
> tells me I've had an APPCRASH in libgncmod-backend-dbi.dll

made up userid, made up password ?

You can't just 'make up' a username and password.  You need to login to
mysql as the root user and create a username with a password.  You
probably also need to create a database (named gnucash I presume). 
Under Linux/UNIX one would fire up the mysql command from a shell with
the root user and password. I believe a *fresh* install leaves the root
user with no password (which really should get changed as the first post
install step).  Creating users and databases is covered in the MySQL
reference manual.

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> I've search the list archives but could not find anything that seemed
> relevant so I would be grateful for any help or suggestions
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> Regards 
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