#17 installation fails due to old mysql-connector-java.jar

[darinper]

The installation fails with the error "Unknown initial character set index '192' received from server. Initial client character set can be forced via the 'characterEncoding' property." because of mysql connector jar is old, release 3.1.12. Updating to a new release resolves this problem. I was able to perform a successful by replacing the included mysql-connector-java-3.1.12-bin.jar with a new release, mysql-connector-java-5.1.6.jar to be specific.

Platform Information:
OpenSUSE 11.3
Mysql 5.1.46
mysql-connector-java-5.1.6.jar