To me this one is cleared. It was a wrong collation in the database. Deleting the user, it's db and recreating it solved the problem. I took these settings in my.cnf:
init_connect='SET collation_connection = utf8_general_ci' init_connect='SET NAMES utf8' character-set-server=utf8 collation-server=utf8_general_ci skip-character-set-client-handshake -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/958120 Title: MySQL does not start with utf8 options To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mysql-5.5/+bug/958120/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs