Standart mysql and PMA installation: [ebuild R ] dev-db/mysql-5.0.22 USE="berkdb extraengine perl ssl -big-tables -cluster -debug -embedded -latin1 -max-idx-128 -minimal -srvdir -static" 19,087 kB [ebuild R ] dev-db/phpmyadmin-2.8.1 USE="-vhosts" 0 kB Databse user password contains special symbols (!@#$%^&* etc.) On utf-8 encoding PMA page I cannot login. I can only login if I set encoding i browser manualy not to utf-8 (eg. Windows-1251). \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ gate-tower1 ~ # emerge --info Portage 2.1 (hardened/x86/2.6, gcc-3.4.6/hardened, glibc-2.3.6-r4, 2.6.16-hardened-r7 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16-hardened-r7 i686 Pentium III (Katmai) Gentoo Base System version 1.12.1 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 2.0.0_rc1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distcc distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://10.0.0.11 http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="ru_RU.UTF-8" LC_ALL="" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage//packages/x86/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage/" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="acpi acpi4linux alsa berkdb bzlib crypt dlloader flash freetype ftp gd hal hardened iconv imap ipv6 jpeg2k lm_sensors mailwrapper mmx mysql mysqli nfs nls nptl nptlonly pam pax perl php pic png posix postgres readline sasl simplexml ssl svg tcpd threads tidy trutype type1 unicode usb userlocales utf8 x86 xls xml xorg xsl zlib elibc_glibc kernel_linux userland_GNU" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Sounds like an upstream issue to me, please report there. Feel free to reopen with more info if you disagree.