CentOS - Nov 2007 - Bugzilla Install problems - need last mile help

I've freshly installed CentOS 5 32-bit on a pc, performed a yum update and
yum
upgrade.   I then did a yum install of mysql.

I finally picked up fresh copies of phpmysql and bugzilla and put both in my 
/var/www/html directory.   mysql is running.  I am able to use mysql -u root to 
get into it, and phpmysql is able to get it, too.

After runs of checksetup.pl to ensure all required pre-requisites were 
installed, I ran it one more time, and get the following:

Creating database bugs...
The 'bugs' database could not be created. The error returned was:

     Access denied for user ''@'localhost' to database
'bugs'

This might have several reasons:

* MySQL is not running.
* MySQL is running, but there is a problem either in the
   server configuration or the database access rights. Read the Bugzilla
   Guide in the doc directory. The section about database configuration
   should help.
* Your password for the 'bugs' user, specified in $db_pass, is
   incorrect, in './localconfig'.
* There is a subtle problem with Perl, DBI, or MySQL. Make
   sure all settings in './localconfig' are correct. If all else fails,
set
   '$db_check' to 0.

[root at localhost bugzilla]#


What do I need to do next?   I tried creating an empty database called bugs for 
the script to hook into, but no luck.  I tried creating a user bugs with full 
permission, but no luck.

Thanks for any leads.

Scott

On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 08:59:43AM -0500, Scott Ehrlich
wrote:
> Creating database bugs...
> The 'bugs' database could not be created. The error returned was:
> 
>     Access denied for user ''@'localhost' to database
'bugs'
I've seen this problem before, but I can't find my notes on it.

Try creating a user "bugs at localhost" instead just creating a user
"bugs" -- to mysql, they are different.

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/ /()\ \ David Mackintosh | 
         dave at xdroop.com  | http://www.xdroop.com
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Wow!

Using phpmyadmin, new user bugs, hostname localhost, no associated 
database (let check script handle that) and it went through!

Now I have to debug wny http://localhost/bugzilla/index.cgi produces the 
contents of the index.cgi file instead of the proper page.

Scott

On Fri, 23 Nov 2007, David Mackintosh wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 08:59:43AM -0500, Scott Ehrlich wrote:
>> Creating database bugs...
>> The 'bugs' database could not be created. The error returned
was:
>>
>>     Access denied for user ''@'localhost' to database
'bugs'
>
> I've seen this problem before, but I can't find my notes on it.
>
> Try creating a user "bugs at localhost" instead just creating a
user
> "bugs" -- to mysql, they are different.
>
> -- 
> /\oo/\
> / /()\ \ David Mackintosh |
>         dave at xdroop.com  | http://www.xdroop.com
>