Bug #60159 incompatibility with XAMPP
Submitted: 17 Feb 2011 12:51 Modified: 21 Feb 2011 10:00
Reporter: Dolores García Email Updates:
Status: Closed Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Workbench: Administration Severity:S1 (Critical)
Version: OS:Any
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any

[17 Feb 2011 12:51] Dolores García 
Description:
MySQL Workbench 5.2.31 crash using XAMPP:
###### ApacheFriends XAMPP (Basispaket) version 1.7.4 ######
  + Apache 2.2.17
  + MySQL 5.5.8 (Community Server)
  + XAMPP Control Version 2.5 from www.nat32.com
  + XAMPP Security

How to repeat:
1. init XAMPP 
2. start apache and mysql service
3. in Mysql Workbench, click New Server Instance
4. go ahead until "Management and OS"
[17 Feb 2011 12:55] Valeriy Kravchuk 
Are you sure you have Windows service created for your MySQL server from XAMPP? Please, send the output of:

net start

command in cmd.exe to check.
[21 Feb 2011 10:00] Dolores García 
ok, using XAMPP as a windows service works fine, thank you.