When prompted for a database name, try joomla-app1 which is a valid database name, but needs to be quoted to work properly. The following patch, more or less, should work: --- /usr/portage/www-apps/joomla/joomla-1.0.5.ebuild 2006-01-07 11:12:46.000000000 -0500 +++ /tmp/joomla-1.0.5.ebuild 2006-01-15 14:59:03.000000000 -0500 @@ -85,5 +85,5 @@ mysqladmin -u ${adminuser} ${host:+-h ${host}} -p create ${MY_DB} || die "Error creating database" mysql -u "${adminuser}" "${host:+-h ${host}}" -p \ -e "GRANT SELECT,INSERT,UPDATE,DELETE,INDEX,ALTER,CREATE,DROP,REFERENCES - ON ${MY_DB}.* TO '${MY_USER}'@'${clientaddr}' IDENTIFIED BY '${mypwd}'; FLUSH PRIVILEGES;" || die "Error initializing database. Please grant permissions manually." + ON `${MY_DB}`.* TO '${MY_USER}'@'${clientaddr}' IDENTIFIED BY '${mypwd}'; FLUSH PRIVILEGES;" || die "Error initializing database. Please grant permissions manually." }
Thanks, fixed