I expect that gnucash assumes you are using the default mysql port. Colin
On Mon, 19 Nov 2018, 03:31 Peter Holck <[email protected] wrote: > Thanks again for your help; I think I understand my problem now. > > GnuCash (reasonably) looks for an instance of MySQL using the same port > that it used when closed (or when created? Not sure). Anyway, I had > assigned a different port number to my new version of MySQL (since I wanted > to keep both MySQL 5.6 and MySQL 8.0 installed on my machine at least until > I confirmed the new version was working correctly). Swapping the port > numbers so the new 8.0 version used the old 5.6 port and vice versa (via > editing the my.ini config file) seems to have done the trick. > > Thanks! > > On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 1:21 AM Colin Law <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Sat, 17 Nov 2018 at 22:52, Peter Holck <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > >> > * 15:25:47 CRIT <gnc.backend.dbi> >> [GncDbiBackend<Type>::session_begin()] Unable to connect to database >> 'gnucash' >> >> Please copy the list on replies, you sent this one just to me. On >> gmail use Reply All when replying. >> >> Are you able to connect to the server using the command line client >> mysql -u username -p >> and it will prompt for the password. >> >> If that connects then >> show databases; >> will show the databases (oddly enough). Then you can exit with >> exit; >> >> Colin >> > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
