Bug #1910 Application crashes when I attempt to connect to a remote server

• Submitted: 21 Nov 2003 12:59
• Modified: 8 Dec 2003 16:28
• Reporter: Robert Brown III
• Status: Closed
• Category: MySQLCC
• Severity: S1 (Critical)
• Version: 0.9.3
• OS: Windows (Windows 2000)
• CPU Architecture: Any

[21 Nov 2003 12:59] Robert Brown III

Description:
1. Run Mysql server on a Red Hat Linux system.

2. Run Mysql Control center on a Windows 2000 machine

3. Before proceeding, make sure that you have granted permission for the root account to be accessed from the Windows machine (using the mysql command, do a "grant all on *.* to 'root'@'[yourwindowsmachine]' identified by '[yourpassword]';")

3. Register a server. Name it anthing you want, set the host to be the machine running the server. Make sure to check the "prompt for password" box.

4. Attempt to connect to the registered server (Action -> Connect).

5. The application will prompt you for the password. Enter your root account's password.

6. Watch as the entire Mysql Control Center window exits.

This behavior is pretty consistent. With experimentation you should find that it also doesn't matter what username you use, what you name the server, or anything. All connection attempts cause the application to crash.

Furthermore, I tried the same test(s) running mysqlcc.exe from the Windows command prompt. Not only does it crash, but it crashes "silently"; it does not generate any error messages at all. It just exits.

Obviously, this software is completely unusable as it currently works. This problem needs to be solved ASAP.

How to repeat:
1. Run Mysql server on a Red Hat Linux system.

2. Run Mysql Control center on a Windows 2000 machine

3. Before proceeding, make sure that you have granted permission for the root account to be accessed from the Windows machine (using the mysql command, do a "grant all on *.* to 'root'@'[yourwindowsmachine]' identified by '[yourpassword]';")

3. Register a server. Name it anthing you want, set the host to be the machine running the server. Make sure to check the "prompt for password" box.

4. Attempt to connect to the registered server (Action -> Connect).

5. The application will prompt you for the password. Enter your root account's password.

6. Watch as the entire Mysql Control Center window exits.

[21 Nov 2003 13:07] Robert Brown III

Another piece of information:

The "silent" exit occurrs on Windows 2000 Server. On Windows 2000 Professional, you get the following message during the crash:

the instruction at "0x39ee141" referenced memory at "0x7463656c". The memory could not be "read".

Press OK to terminate the program
Press CANCEL to debug the program

[21 Nov 2003 13:35] Dean Ellis

Verify that you are providing the correct login information; also you may wish to try using another tool (the mysql command-line client, for instance) to verify that you can actually connect.

There is a known and already reported issue with 0.9.3 where connection failures cause MySQLCC to crash.

Thank you

[8 Dec 2003 16:28] Jorge del Conde

Thank you for your bug report. This issue has been committed to our
source repository of that product and will be incorporated into the
next release.

If necessary, you can access the source repository and build the latest
available version, including the bugfix, yourself. More information 
about accessing the source trees is available at
    http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Installing_source_tree.html