OK - here's one for the debian gurus: bunbun:/var/lib/mysql/mysql$ sudo apt-get install cacti Password: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Sorry, cacti is already the newest version. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Setting up cacti (0.6.7-2) ... ERROR 1045: Access denied for user: 'loop@localhost' (Using password: YES) ERROR 1045: Access denied for user: 'loop@localhost' (Using password: YES) dpkg: error processing cacti (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: cacti
I have tried purging all dependencies of cacti (including all mysql stuff) but this error keeps popping up. It seems to me that the cacti configure script seems to think that it's username should be loop - but the mysql server doesn't know of a user by that name. Does anyone have any ideas? cheers, rob -- You mean you need drugs to hallucinate? This is random quote 1236 of a collection of 1250 [15200.8 km (8207.8 mi), 262.8 deg](Apparent) Rennerian -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
