[Koha] Problems running koha-create on Ubuntu 16.04 with MariaDB

[Jonathan Druart]

Hi Daniel,

Take a look at /etc/mysql/koha-common.cnf, you should see the credentials
koha-create is going to use to create the Koha database (not root).

Regards,
Jonathan

On Tue, 9 Jan 2018 at 03:28 Daniel Owens <dcowens76 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am moving our library to a new server with Ubuntu 16.04. Following the
> instructions at
> https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_on_ubuntu_-_packages, I
> installed MariaDB instead of MySQL.
>
> When I run: sudo koha-create --create-db koha_library
>
> The result is: ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user
> 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO)
>
> I'd been wrestling with this problem for awhile before I got to this
> point because I got similar messages when trying to configure
> phpmyadmin. I can run "mysql -u root -p". However, just "mysql -u root"
> fails with the above message as well. Is there a way to tell koha-create
> to run using a password? Or am I missing something?
>
> I am hoping someone has a quick solution.
>
> Daniel
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