Jeffery Cann wrote:
Connected as root (automatic) Connected to database... 4.1.11-standard; enabling MySQL 4 enhancements
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Converting links table to ID-ID... Sorry! The wiki is experiencing some technical difficulties, and cannot contact the database server.
Please see the RELEASE-NOTES file, in the section about MySQL 4.1, and try the suggestions on the linked pages.
Since your MySQL server doesn't have a password set on the local root account, the initial connection which tries this first succeeds. A later part of the process makes a connection with the configured username and password, which can then fail due to the incompatible change to the MySQL authentication protocol.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)