Save As MySQL is crashing gnucash

[Robert Heller]

At Fri, 26 Nov 2010 07:18:00 -0000 "Ian X Waddington" <iwaddox at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> Thank you, the entries in the archives suggest that a save as in gnucash
> changing the type to mysql would create a database of name gnucash with the
> user id and password I had entered.
> 
> Is this now not the case?

You missunderstand the messages in the archves.  MySQL (like most/all
RDBMs) needs to have users and databases *created* by a DB 'super user'
before application client programs can login.

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Heller [mailto:heller at deepsoft.com] 
> Sent: 26 November 2010 00:02
> To: Ian X Waddington
> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org; Robert Heller
> Subject: Re: Save As MySQL is crashing gnucash
> 
> At Thu, 25 Nov 2010 22:59:47 -0000 "Ian X Waddington" <iwaddox at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Hi
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > On a Windows 7 machine I am running gnucash 2.3.17 and have just 
> > installed MySql 5.1.53
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > I've search the list archives but could not find anything that seemed 
> > relevant so I would be grateful for any help or suggestions
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Regards
> > 
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