Bug #2731 Fatal error starting MySQL Administrator
Submitted: 12 Feb 2004 1:01 Modified: 11 Mar 2004 8:52
Reporter: Andreas Götz Email Updates:
Status: Closed Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Administrator Severity:S1 (Critical)
Version:1st Alpha OS:Windows (WinXP)
Assigned to: Michael G. Zinner CPU Architecture:Any

[12 Feb 2004 1:01] Andreas Götz
Description:
Program started OK a couple of times, but no longer. Error message is:

Debug Error
DAMAGE: after Normal block (#69) 0x00E830F8.

Database has been checked, no errors.

This seemed to happen first time after fiddling with replication parameters in the administrator. Machine is a slave.

How to repeat:
Start Administrator.
[12 Feb 2004 7:32] Jonathan Foo
Experienced problem similar to Andreas'.  I'm also running WinXP (Home edition, SP1).

Differences:

- Problem began after attempting to set Edit... Options... General Options... "Connection Password Storage" to Store passwords using Obscured method.
- Apply changes... close
- Shut down Administrator
- Restart administrator; log in
  - no problem on first restart
- Shut down Administrator again
- Restart Administrator again
  - This second restart produces an error popup similar to Andreas':

Debug Error!
Program: C:\Program Files\MySQL\GUITools\MySQLAdministrator.exe
DAMAGE: after Normal block (#68) at 0x00E83328.

The popup window displays Abort, Retry, Ignore buttons.  Clicking Ignore allows Administrator to start, but without the user password already filled in.

Bug can be avoided by reversing this procedure (unsetting Connection Password Storage, then shutting down and restarting twice; the second restart does not display the bug).
[12 Feb 2004 7:33] Andreas Götz
Correct- now I remember. Think it's password storage!
[12 Feb 2004 8:41] Dan Arnold
Experienced same problem as Jonathan:

-Problem began after attempting to set Edit... Options... General Options...
"Connection Password Storage" to Store passwords using Obscured method.
-Apply changes... close
-Shut down Administrator
-Restart administrator and get this error:

Debug Error!
Program: C:\Program Files\MySQL\GUITools\MySQLAdministrator.exe
DAMAGE: after Normal block (#59) at 0x00E82D98.

Running WinXp Pro.
[12 Feb 2004 9:13] Michael Zelina
Here's the error I get when restarting:

Program: C:\Program Files\MySQL\GUITools\MySQLAdministrator.exe
DAMAGE: after Normal block (#56) at 0x01192C10.

If I click Ignore and then try to login to the database, the program
then crashes with:

MySQLAdministra.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows.
An error log is being created.

However, I cannot find the error log.
[13 Feb 2004 1:26] Michael G. Zinner
Thanks for reporting!

There is an issue with the Password Storage when set to Obscured.

This will be fixed asap.

In the meanwhile you could take the following steps to workaround this issues:

Please go to c:\Documents and Settings\[YourUsername]\Application Data\MySQL.
Delete all files located in this directory.

Then, after restarting the Administrator, instantly click [...] and change the Password Storage to plain.
[13 Feb 2004 1:42] Michael G. Zinner
Thanks for reporting!

There is an issue with the Password Storage when set to Obscured.

This will be fixed asap.

In the meanwhile you could take the following steps to workaround this issues:

Please go to c:\Documents and Settings\[YourUsername]\Application Data\MySQL.
Delete all files located in this directory.

Then, after restarting the Administrator, instantly click [...] and change the
Password Storage to plain.
[27 Feb 2004 15:22] MySQL Verification Team
Already verified in the own Michael's words.
[11 Mar 2004 8:52] Michael G. Zinner
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