Hallo! Maybe someone can shed some light on this, i don't have any more ideas on how to get this to install. My system is a debian 5.0.5. Installed are: tomcat5.5 mysql 5.0.51.a apache2 java 1.5 I tried to use the .bin-installer but it refused to connect to the mysql database. I switched to the war-install but encounter similar problems here, maybe someone has an idea what the problem is? I created a default_master.properties, the values are also found in the log, so i'm just posting the log for now. the '?????????????????' at line 1 part is giving me headaches. I think it may not be able to connect to the database, but i don't know why. The root mysql user is allowed to connect from any ip. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Running JasperReports Server install script at 2011-02-17_09-52 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [test] Running pre-install-test-ce Ant task. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Buildfile: /home/jasperreports-server-cp-4.0.0-bin/buildomatic/build.xml [echo] Filtering properties (cleaning out blank spaces) test-ce-all-props: [echo] Checking properties: [echo] appServerType=tomcat5 [echo] appServerDir=/var/lib/tomcat5.5 [echo] dbType=mysql [echo] dbHost=localhost [echo] dbUsername=root [echo] dbPassword=********** [echo] dbPort=3306 [echo] js.dbName=jasperserver [echo] sugarcrm.dbName=sugarcrm [echo] foodmart.dbName=foodmart [echo] webAppNameCE=jasperserver check-dbtype-ce: test-appServerType-ce: do-pre-install-test: [echo] Checking DBMS host and port: cannot do a proper reachability test on this Java version [echo] Host localhost is OK [echo] Port 3306 is OK [echo] Validating administrative database connection at jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/mysql. Phase: [test] [advanced-sql] Failed to connect: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '????????????????' at line 1 [echo] Connection failed: [echo] SQLState: 42000 [echo] Vendor specific error code: 1064 [echo] Message: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '????????????????' at line 1] BUILD FAILED /home/jasperreports-server-cp-4.0.0-bin/buildomatic/bin/validation.xml:282: The following error occurred while executing this line: /home/jasperreports-server-cp-4.0.0-bin/buildomatic/bin/validation.xml:165: The following error occurred while executing this line: /home/jasperreports-server-cp-4.0.0-bin/buildomatic/conf_source/db/mysql/db.xml:58: The following error occurred while executing this line: /home/jasperreports-server-cp-4.0.0-bin/buildomatic/bin/validation.xml:223: The following error occurred while executing this line: /home/jasperreports-server-cp-4.0.0-bin/buildomatic/bin/validation.xml:259: Database doesn't exist. Treating problem with JDBC connection as unrecoverable Total time: 7 seconds Checking Ant return code: OK ----------------------------------------------------------------------