The error pasted at the end of this comment occurs directly after
submitting valid login credentials. The error does not occur if invalid
credentials are submitted.


My system specifications:

  Operating System: Fedora 10 (Linux Maco 2.6.27.9-159.fc10.i686 #1 SMP
Tue Dec 16 15:12:04 EST 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux)

  Installed related packages (using standard Fedora 10 repository packages):
    - MySQL-Python 1.2.2
    - roundup 1.4.6.
    - MySQL 5.0.67


The error message:

Traceback (most recent call last):

 File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/roundup/cgi/client.py", line
409, in inner_main
   html = self.handle_action()

 File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/roundup/cgi/client.py", line
975, in handle_action
   return action_klass(self).execute()

 File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/roundup/cgi/actions.py", line
39, in execute
   return self.handle()

 File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/roundup/cgi/actions.py", line
918, in handle
   self.client.session_api.set(user=self.client.user)

 File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/roundup/cgi/client.py", line
168, in set
   self._sid = self._gen_sid()

 File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/roundup/cgi/client.py", line
141, in _gen_sid
   if not self.session_db.exists(s):

 File
"/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/roundup/backends/sessions_rdbms.py",
line 27, in exists
   n, self.db.arg), (infoid,))

 File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/MySQLdb/cursors.py", line 147,
in execute
   charset = db.character_set_name()

InterfaceError: (0, '')