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

[John Ralls]

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