You're doing this: # make initialize-database
which is in turn running this: # /usr/bin/perl -I/opt/rt4/local/lib -I/opt/rt4/lib sbin/rt-setup-database --action init --prompt-for-dba-password which is going to connect to the database as the RT "DBA user" (RT_Config setting $DatabaseAdmin), which according to your pasted output: In order to create or update your RT database, this script needs to connect to your mysql instance on 10.20.20.5 (port '3306') as root is "root". Going off your RT_SiteConfig.pm snippet, you actually want to connect to the database as user "rtuser". Therefore, adding this to RT_SiteConfig.pm might solve your issue: Set($DatabaseAdmin, "rtuser"); On 10 December 2014 at 01:56, Kristan Wagner < kristan.wag...@lifewireless.com> wrote: > I am having troubles with the database initialization, for a fresh install > of RT 4.2.9. The error message is: DBD::mysql::st execute failed: Access > denied for user 'root'@'10.10.10.3' to database 'rt4' at > /tmp/rt-4.2.9/sbin/../lib/RT/Handle.pm line 452. make: *** > [initialize-database] Error 255 > > Here's my setup: Separate servers for the web frontend and the database, > both running Ubuntu 14.04. The web frontend is running Apache/2.4.7 and has > an IP address 10.10.10.3. The database machine is running MySQL 5.5.40 and > has the IP address 10.20.20.5. Both of these are fresh installs, and RT is > a fresh install, but we plan to migrate our old RT database (3.6.5) when > the 4.2.9 is (eventually) running and tested. Right now, I'm just trying > to get 4.2.9 going. > > Here's the context for the error: I've been following the README on the > bestpractical website. At step 2, I ran configure with only one flag, > --with-db-host=10.20.20.5. At step 4, fixdeps kept claiming that MySQL was > missing, so I had to install MySQL on the web frontend as well, just to get > it to install. At step 6a, make initialize-database is failing with the > following output: > root@10.10.10.3/tmp/rt-4.2.9# make initialize-database > /usr/bin/perl -I/opt/rt4/local/lib -I/opt/rt4/lib sbin/rt-setup-database > --action init --prompt-for-dba-password > In order to create or update your RT database, this script needs to > connect to your mysql instance on 10.20.20.5 (port '3306') as root > Please specify that user's database password below. If the user has no > database password, just press return. > > Password: > Working with: > Type: mysql > Host: 10.20.20.5 > Port: 3306 > Name: rt4 > User: rtuser > DBA: root > Now creating a mysql database rt4 for RT. > Done. > Now populating database schema. > Done. > Now inserting database ACLs. > [23346] [Mon Dec 8 21:27:35 2014] [warning]: DBD::mysql::st execute > failed: Access denied for user 'root'@'10.10.10.3' to database 'rt4' at > /tmp/rt-4.2.9/sbin/../lib/RT/Handle.pm line 452. > (/tmp/rt-4.2.9/sbin/../lib/RT/Handle.pm:452) > [23346] [Mon Dec 8 21:27:35 2014] [critical]: DBD::mysql::st execute > failed: Access denied for user 'root'@'10.10.10.3' to database 'rt4' at > /tmp/rt-4.2.9/sbin/../lib/RT/Handle.pm line 452. > (/tmp/rt-4.2.9/sbin/../lib/RT.pm:388) > DBD::mysql::st execute failed: Access denied for user 'root'@'10.10.10.3' > to database 'rt4' at /tmp/rt-4.2.9/sbin/../lib/RT/Handle.pm line 452. > make: *** [initialize-database] Error 255 > > I've spent a lot of time reading forum questions about mysqld.sock, but > please note that there is NO mention of any socket trouble in the error, so > I don't think that's it. Plus, it's able to get through the first two steps > just fine. > > Here is some of RT_SiteConfig.pm from the web frontend: > Set($DatabaseHost, '10.20.20.5' ); > Set($DatabasePort, "3306"); > Set($DatabasePassword, q{passwordhere}); > Set($DatabaseUser, "rtuser"); > Set($DatabaseName, q{rt4}); > > On the database server, here is some of my.cnf: > [mysqld] > user = mysql > pid-file = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid > socket = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock > port = 3306 > basedir = /usr > datadir = /var/lib/mysql > tmpdir = /tmp > lc-messages-dir = /usr/share/mysql > skip-external-locking > bind-address = 0.0.0.0 > > I've already tried this using the option skip-name-resolve, but that did > not help. > > Here are the permissions for the root user, as shown on 10.20.20.5's MySQL > instance: > +----------------------------------------------------------- > -------------------------------------------------------------+ > | Grants for root@10.10.10.3 > +----------------------------------------------------------- > -------------------------------------------------------------+ > | GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'root'@'10.10.10.3' IDENTIFIED BY > PASSWORD '*hash' > | GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON `rt4`.* TO 'root'@'10.10.10.3' > +----------------------------------------------------------- > -------------------------------------------------------------+ > > I've even tried creating a general root user for 'root'@'%' but the same > error is thrown. Any help is appreciated. Thanks. > > > >