Sorry, as you might have guessed this was caused by a local configuration problem. Specifically I had a bad (old) password in /root/.my.cnf.
Marking invalid. Sorry for the noise. Andrew. ** Changed in: phpmyadmin (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- configuration fails: access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/549430 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs