Hi, I think you should file this as a bug! No matter what mistake you make as a user, Gnucash should not crash, but rather give you a reasonable error message and handle the situation gracefully (what Gnucash usually does).
On my Ubuntu machine, after installing MySQL, I had to log into the MySQL-client on the commandline with: mysql -u root -p Then at the mysql prompt enter: CREATE USER 'gncuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'gncpw'; GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'gncuser'@'localhost'; Now I could use MySQL from within Gnucash. Juergen On Fri, 2010-11-26 at 07:18 +0000, Ian X Waddington 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? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Robert Heller [mailto:hel...@deepsoft.com] > Sent: 26 November 2010 00:02 > To: Ian X Waddington > Cc: gnucash-u...@gnucash.org; Robert Heller > Subject: Re: Save As MySQL is crashing gnucash > > At Thu, 25 Nov 2010 22:59:47 -0000 "Ian X Waddington" <iwad...@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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > gnucash-user mailing list > > gnucash-u...@gnucash.org > > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > > ----- > > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > > > > _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
