Archive for October, 2011

Startup problems with 5.2.35? Get 5.2.35.1

Thursday, October 27th, 2011

In the latest release of MySQL Workbench (5.2.35), we received a number of reports that some people upgrading over a previous installation ended up in not being able to launch MySQL Workbench afterwards, instead receiving an error such as Access to the path 'C:\Program Files (x86)\MySQL\MySQL Workbench CE 5.2.35\db_utils.pyc' is ...

Building MySQL Workbench from sources on Ubuntu/Debian

Monday, October 17th, 2011

To build MySQL Workbench one would need to install dependencies, fetch source code, configure it and actually do a build. Note: On a Core2 Quad 2.4 GHz and a 4G of RAM it takes about 30-40 minutes to build Workbench. Also it uses about 4.2G of hdd space to build. Here are ...

MySQL Workbench on Ubuntu 11.10

Monday, October 17th, 2011

We have seen many reports about broken build and freezes which are experienced on Ubuntu 11.10. While the build fix was pretty simple, the freezes took us a bit more time to hunt them down. The point is that MySQL Workbench relies on glib's idle signals which are emitted when Gtk's ...