Save As MySQL is crashing gnucash

[Geert Janssens]

On Friday 26 November 2010, Ian X Waddington wrote:
> Thank you for your input.
> 
> Ok I now have a user with privileges but it still crashes instantly.
> 
Can you post the contents of the gnucash trace file [0].

> I could be wrong but I'm inclined to think this problem is more fundamental
> to the application than MySQL.
> 
> Any additional thoughts would be ideal  - a step-by-step idiot proof guide
> to installing MySQL onto a Windows 7 PC and setting everything up to work
> with Gnucash would be even better :-)
> 
> Regards
> 
Is that Windows 7 - 64bit or 32 bit ?

There are a couple of bugs in bugzilla already regarding 64-bit Windows 7, and 
at least one related to the mysql backend as well [1]. That bug doesn't report 
a crash though.

Geert

[0] see http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Windows#Error_messages.2C_Trace_file to 
learn about the trace file.
[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=624465