MySQL Bugs: #53355: Unable to connect to MySQL server

Bug #53355	Unable to connect to MySQL server
Submitted:	2 May 2010 11:08	Modified:	11 May 2010 9:42
Reporter:	Mich?le Garoche	Email Updates:
Status:	Closed	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Workbench	Severity:	S1 (Critical)
Version:	5.2.20 beta revision 5783	OS:	MacOS
Assigned to:	Alfredo Kojima	CPU Architecture:	Any

Description:
System/Machine: Mac OS X 10.5.8 Intel Core 2 Duo
MySQL: mysql-5.1.46-osx10.5-x86_64

The password for connection, though saved in keychain, is not accessible by MySQL Workbench.
You may consider it as a duplicate of bug 51673, but as it was closed and I cannot reopen it, here it is again.

A workaround may be to lock login in Keychain Access just before entering the password. It works sometimes, not always. If it does not work, then re-entering it and pressing tab (as suggested in bug 51673) makes it recognized.

But this is not a solution, is not it? It should work right out of the box, if I dare say so.

How to repeat:
Click on New Connection.
Enter a new connection name.
Choose Local Socket/Pipe as Connection method.
Click on Store in Keychain.
Enter the MySQL password for root user.
Click on OK.
Click on Test Connection.

Verified just as described on Mac OS X 10.5.x.

Fixed

fix confirmed in repository

An entry has been added to the 5.2.21 changelog:

If a socket/pipe connection method was used, and the password stored in the keychain, MySQL Workbench could not connect to the server.