MySQL Bugs: #57941: Admin->Accounts: No user accounts shown, unhandled exception when adding user

Bug #57941	Admin->Accounts: No user accounts shown, unhandled exception when adding user
Submitted:	3 Nov 2010 2:08	Modified:	31 Dec 2010 12:04
Reporter:	Zbigniew Helak	Email Updates:
Status:	Closed	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Workbench: Administration	Severity:	S4 (Feature request)
Version:	5.2.29	OS:	Windows (XP, Vista 64)
Assigned to:	Alfredo Kojima	CPU Architecture:	Any

Description:
On Windows XP no user accounts (even root) are not shown in the Admin->Accounts->Server Access Management windows. When trying to add a new, nonexisting account an error window with the text: 'unhandled exception' shows up.

How to repeat:
Just open Admin->Server Access Management window.
Tested with Workbench installed on Windows XP 32/ Vista 64
and MySQL database (5.1.46-community) residing on Vista 64 bit OS.

Suggested fix:
Just fix it.

After further testing I discovered that the problem is with the account privileges I was logging with.

However - WB responses ("Unhandled exception") in no way suggested that. For that reason I've decided to keep the submission with Severity downgraded to "Feature request". If account you have logged in does not have sufficient privileges - WB should not generate any "Unhandled exception" message, it would be nice if it suggested somehow that the problem may be with account priviliges.

Verified as described on Windows XP SP3. I'd still call this a bug, not just a feature request.

there should not be an exception but some error/info message that guides the user to the source of the problem

Added better error message

fix confirmed in repository

An entry has been added to the 5.2.31 changelog:

In the Server Access Management tab of the Administrator no user accounts were displayed. Further, attempting to create a new account resulted in an exception.

I have the same problem. I don't know how to work around this except with sql "CREATE USER" command.

Please fix this! Thanks