Bug#408405: [request-tracker-maintainers] Bug#408405: request-tracker3.6: infinite login

[Niko Tyni]

retitle 408405 request-tracker3.6: document a common MySQL misconfiguration that causes login problems
severity 408405 wishlist
thanks

On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 02:58:54PM +0100, Jan Korbel wrote:
> After some testing and debugging i found the problem. It was 
> misconfigured mysql - utf settings in my.cnf. Because of this data was 
> utf8-double encoded.
> 
> So problem was only in my one configuration. Anyway some docs about this 
> user-based issue would be fine. Something like:
> 
> "If you have problem with infinite login, try to alter table... If it 
> helps, probably you have bad encoding in database."

OK, that explains it. Thanks for the info. 

I'm retitling the bug accordingly and will probably add a note about 
this in NOTES.Debian for the next upload.
 
> I hope you didn't loose much time with this.

No problem :)

Cheers,
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Niko Tyni	ntyni at iki.fi