Can not save data in mysql data format

[Colin Law]

On 11 July 2011 16:13, Jos Visser <josvis at sonicmail.co.za> wrote:
> Machine : Windows XP / Ubuntu 1104 dual boot both regularly updated,
> desktop stand-alone, lone user. Loaded Gnucash 2.4.2 from Ubuntu
> Software Centre with "MySQL database server driver for libdbi
> (libdbd-mysql)." Trying to save companies in mysql data format gives the
> following error : "The server at URL mysql://jos@localhost/gnucash
> experienced an error or encountered bad or corrupt data." After
> rebooting/reloading I updated Gnucash to ver 2.4.7 with getdeb. The same
> error result

Have you set up a MySQL server on the PC?

Colin