Installing Bugzilla 4.2.5 with Mysql 5.6.11

Question

So now I am getting to the final steps of completing the Bugzilla install. I keep getting 'disabledtext' can't have a default value.

This is the complete error.

*Initializing "Dependency Tree Changes" email_setting ... Updating column disabledtext in table profiles ... Old: mediumtext DEFAULT '' NOT NULL New: mediumtext NOT NULL

DBD::mysql::db do failed: BLOB/TEXT column 'disabledtext' can't have a default value [for Statement "ALTER TABLE profiles ALTER COLUMN disabledtext DROP DEFAULT"] at Bugzilla/DB.pm line 729.

Bugzilla::DB::bz_alter_column_raw('Bugzilla::DB::Mysql=HASH(0x6e8f7f0)', 'profiles', 'disabledtext', 'HASH(0xa0a73d0)', 'HASH(0xa0be4a8)', undef) called at Bugzilla/DB.pm line 688

Bugzilla::DB::bz_alter_column('Bugzilla::DB::Mysql=HASH(0x6e8f7f0)', 'profiles', 'disabledtext', 'HASH(0xa0a73d0)') called at Bugzilla/Install/DB.pm line 505

Bugzilla::Install::DB::update_table_definitions('HASH(0x30d53d0)') called at ./checksetup.pl line 199*

Is the actual error in Bugzilla/Install/DB.pm?

Very new at this stuff so any would be great.

Bugzilla = 4.2.5 Mysql = 5.6.11 OS = Suse 12

Answer 1

There was an active bug filed for MySQL 5.6 and Bugzilla 4.2.5 and lower where mySQL 5.6 was not supported and causing a bunch of issues. The bug report is linked the the release notes below.

But to resolve your issue, you can either downgrade MySQL to a 5.5 series or lower, or upgrade BugZilla. BugZilla 4.2.6 was released on May 22nd that provides support for MySQL 5.6, see the release notes linked off of this page.

My advice is to upgrade BugZilla to 4.2.6.