Just like the above poster I found the comments here tremendously useful. Just in case it isn't obvious, if you want to fix the link in your Applications menu and not have to drop to the terminal, put a file named mysql-admin-fixed.sh in your local bin directory with this in it:
#!/bin/bash export DEBUG_DONT_SPAWN_FETCHES=1 mysql-admin then run: chmod +x mysql-admin-fixed.sh. When you are done use the Alacarte Menu Editor to change the MySQL- Administrator entry to point to your script. -- MySQL Administrator Locks when trying to do User Administration https://launchpad.net/bugs/29802 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
