[odb-users] Problem connecting a mysql server

[niermann at informatik.uni-tuebingen.de]

Hello Boris,

thank you so much for your help. Using the distribution specific
libmysqlclient finally solved the issue. The tests are running now.
Best,

Peter

On 16.05.2012 19:23, Boris Kolpackov wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> niermann at informatik.uni-tuebingen.de
<niermann at informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:
>
>> I did the modification you suggested and got an 'object not persistent'
>> exception.
> This is very strange. My guess is that there is some incompatibility
> with the MySQL client library you have installed (libmysqlclient)
> and your distribution. From your kernel version I gather you are
> using RedHat EL 5 (or CentOS 5). You also mentioned that you use
> mysql-connector-c-6.0.2-linux-glibc2.3-x86-64bit as the client
> library. A better option would be to use libmysqlclient that comes
> with your distribution. Try something like this:
>
> yum install mysqlclient16
> yum install mysqlclient16-devel
>
> If that doesn't work for some reason, then the next best option is
> to try an RPM from the MySQL download site:
>
> http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.1.html
>
> Make sure you select RedHat Linux 4 & 5 from the Platform list and
> then download and install:
>
> MySQL-devel-community-5.1.63-1.rhel5.i386.rpm
> MySQL-shared-community-5.1.63-1.rhel5.i386.rpm
>
> Boris