Re: Problems installing Scarab

What version of mysql are you using?

Your JDBC URL is probably not correct.
By default, MySQL listens on port 3306.

And your database is not correct, it should probably be 'scarab' and not '?'.
I do not think you can name a mysql database starting with '?'.

The error you receive is a failure in connecting to a MySQL server.


Try with a different JDBC URL - you can test the URL before running ant

If your new JDBC URL is jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/scarab
Then test like this:
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you% telnet localhost 3306
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1).
Escape character is '^]'.
A
4.1.22-standard-logBe
$wQnVE7#,?0G}^Bly>d`3{5^]
telnet>
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You should see the MySQL Name ('.1.22-standard-log' in this example) in the 
output once telneting to the port.


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-RG


Walker, Marcus wrote:
> To Whom It May Concern:
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>             My name is Marcus Walker and am I attempting to set up an 
> instance of scarab for my company as a possible tracking solution.  I am 
> running into some problems with the installation:
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> 
> The problem that I am having relates to the step involving creation of 
> the database.  I am using Ant and when attempting to build it (step 4.2 
> in your instructions) there is no problem, it indicates that the build 
> was successful. 
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> When going to the next step 5a, I run the command ant create-db which is 
> where I have my problem:
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> I have not made any special changes to the build.properties file (it is 
> simply the minimal properties file with the exception of specifying the 
> listener on port 8080).  After running the command it appears that half 
> of the build file involved with that command runs just fine until it 
> gets to this portion:
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>  
> 
> *Create-empty-db:*
> 
> * *
> 
> *            [echo]*
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> *            [echo]              Create empty database:*
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> *            [echo]              driver  : [org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver]*
> 
> *            [echo]              url       : 
> [jdbc:mysql://localhost:8080/?]*
> 
> *            [echo]              userid : [root]*
> 
> *            [echo]              password: []*
> 
> * *
> 
> It then comes up with this message
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> *BUILD FAILED*
> 
> *C:\SCARAB_HOME\build\build.xml:441: The following error occurred while 
> executing this line:*
> 
> *C:\SCARAB_HOME\target\scarab\WEB-INF\conf\build.xml:345: 
> com.mysql.jdbc.CommunicationsException: Communications link failure due 
> to underlying exception:*
> 
> * *
> 
> * *
> 
> It then goes into some kind of something that says
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> **BEGIN NESTED EXCEPTION**
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> then eventually ends.
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> I am using mysql and the scarab directory is located at C:\SCARAB_HOME.  
> I have also made sure that I set all of the environment variable as you 
> have indicated in the installation instructions.  I appreciate any help 
> that  you have can give me.  I have been trying to install this product 
> for a while and I am just not getting something right.  This is for 
> evaluation purposes so security settings/passwords are not of any 
> importance.  Thank you.
> 
>  
> 
> Marcus Walker
> 
> Nortel Government Solutions
> 
> Database Administrator
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> (703) 653-2015
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