Ubuntu 8.04: Can't install beacause of MySQL

[ECB]

Hello

I'm starting to evaluate OX Server Edition.

Trying to install on Ubuntu 8.04.2 64-bit following this article.

I am failing at initializing the Open-Xchange configdb database.
When I run this command (as a regular user):

/opt/open-xchange/sbin/initconfigdb --configdb-pass=db_password -a

I get

need to be root in order to setup the system

However, when I run

sudo /opt/open-xchange/sbin/initconfigdb --configdb-pass=db_password -a

I get

initializing configdb from scratch...ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO)
ERROR

How do I solve this problem?

Thanks very much.

[Martin Heiland]

Hi,

please prepend "sudo" to those commands

sudo /opt/open-xchange/sbin/initconfigdb --configdb-pass=db_password -a

etc.

Greetings

[fov]

the better way is to give root his own passwod and to log in as root.

sudo passwd root

[ECB]

the better way is to give root his own passwod and to log in as root.

Tried that. Same problem still...

[ECB]

Can anyone please help?
I can't even start evaluating OX this way...
I am having the same EXACT problem described in this thread, but I don't understand how it was solved.

Thanks.

[mardoc]

Hi,
what I´ve learned during installation of OX, it´s better to leave the mysql-root passwd "empty", and after installation, don´t forget to set the mysql-root passwd.
this issue also happend, when you use the ox-installer, also if you set a mysql-root passwd during the setup-process, it fails afterwards somewhere, because the script can not connect ot the db.

the installer do have here a bug, of sure, because the installer worx, when you leave it empty.

-mardoc