[Webapps-common-packages] Bug#408551: bugzilla: Cannot install with MySQL root password set

[Ulf Jaenicke-Rößler]

Package: bugzilla
Version: 2.22.1-2
Severity: important

Hi,
first I must admit that I do not yet understand how dbconfig-common 
works - maybe this bug has to be reassigned to that package.
Here is what I did:
I installed Debian from v3.1 net install including bugzilla.
Then I did an apt-get dist-upgrade to testing, mainly because
I wanted to relive an older bugzilla which was dumped by a
MySQL 5.0 database.
Unfortunately the new bugzilla version could not be configured
during install because some of the configure scripts failed.
Since it happened somewhen during the upgrade process I wasn't
able to note the message. :-(
I tried:
dpkg-reconfigure bugzilla
dpkg --purge bugzilla; apt-get install bugzilla
to no avail. Everytime I got either access denied for the root
user of MySQL or for the bugzilla admin user. I cannot tell why
it stopped sometimes for root, sometimes for bugzilla admin.

I got it to work by editing /etc/dbconfig-common/bugzilla.conf
by hand (all entries below dbc_dbtype="mysql" where empty, so
I filled in dbc_dbuser, _dbpass, _dbname a.s.o.) and removing
temporarily the password for MySQL's root user.

Hopefully that is somewhat understandable.
Best regards
 Ulf

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-3-386
Locale: LANG=de_DE at euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages bugzilla depends on:
ii  apache2                       2.2.3-3.2  Next generation, scalable, extenda
ii  apache2-mpm-prefork [httpd]   2.2.3-3.2  Traditional model for Apache HTTPD
ii  dbconfig-common               1.8.29     common framework for packaging dat
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.11     Debian configuration management sy
ii  exim4                         4.63-12    metapackage to ease exim MTA (v4) 
ii  exim4-daemon-light [mail-tran 4.63-12    lightweight exim MTA (v4) daemon
ii  libappconfig-perl             1.56-2     Perl module for configuration file
ii  libdbd-mysql-perl             3.0008-1   A Perl5 database interface to the 
ii  libmailtools-perl             1.74-1     Manipulate email in perl programs
ii  libmime-perl                  5.420-0.1  Perl5 modules for MIME-compliant m
ii  libtemplate-perl              2.14-1     template processing system written
ii  libtimedate-perl              1.1600-5   Time and date functions for Perl
ii  mysql-client                  5.0.30-3   mysql database client (meta packag
ii  mysql-client-5.0 [mysql-clien 5.0.30-3   mysql database client binaries
ii  patch                         2.5.9-4    Apply a diff file to an original
ii  ucf                           2.0018.1   Update Configuration File: preserv

Versions of packages bugzilla recommends:
ii  libchart-perl                 2.4.1-4    Chart Library for Perl
ii  libxml-parser-perl            2.34-4.2   Perl module for parsing XML files
ii  mysql-server                  5.0.30-3   mysql database server (meta packag
ii  mysql-server-5.0 [mysql-serve 5.0.30-3   mysql database server binaries
pn  perlmagick                    <none>     (no description available)

-- debconf information:
* bugzilla/dbconfig-install: true
* bugzilla/mysql/admin-user: root
  bugzilla/remove-error: abort
* bugzilla/mysql/method: unix socket
  bugzilla/internal/reconfiguring: false
* bugzilla/bugzilla_admin_real_name: Bugzilla Admin
  bugzilla/upgrade-error: abort
  bugzilla/dbconfig-reinstall: false
* bugzilla/db/app-user: bugzilla
  bugzilla/internal/skip-preseed: false
  bugzilla/purge: false
  bugzilla/upgrade-backup: true
* bugzilla/db/dbname: bugs
  bugzilla/dbconfig-remove: true
  bugzilla/database-type: mysql
  bugzilla/remote/host:
  bugzilla/remote/port:
  bugzilla/dbconfig-upgrade: true
  bugzilla/install-error: retry
* bugzilla/bugzilla_admin_name: ujr at insynergie.de
  bugzilla/passwords-do-not-match:
  bugzilla/remote/newhost: