trac-admin: Failed to create environment (invalid literal for int() )

[stani.gaj@…]

Due to a crashed hard drive I had to reinstall Trac 0.12.2 (stable) on a new system (Ubuntu 10.10) However, it does not allow me to set up the initial environments of new projects.

What I do is

trac-admin /var/tracprojects/project initenv

After supplying information about the PROJECT NAME and MYSQL database the following error pops up:

  Creating and Initializing Project
  Initenv for '/var/tracprojects/project' failed. 
  Failed to create environment.
  invalid literal for int() with base 10: ''
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/trac/admin/console.py", line 422, in do_initenv
      options=options)
    File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/trac/env.py", line 213, in __init__
      self.create(options)
    File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/trac/env.py", line 401, in create
      DatabaseManager(self).init_db()
    File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/trac/db/api.py", line 145, in init_db
      connector, args = self.get_connector()
    File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/trac/db/api.py", line 183, in get_connector
      scheme, args = _parse_db_str(self.connection_uri)
    File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/trac/db/api.py", line 260, in _parse_db_str
      port = int(port)
  ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: ''

Updating trac to the latest 0.13-dev does not solve the issue.

[Remy Blank]

It looks like you have an invalid database connection string. Can you please post the value of the [trac] database option in trac.ini?

[stani.gaj@…]

[trac] database = mysql://login:ntrac123@localhost:/ntc_trac

Hm, you're right. I removed the : and it works now!

[Remy Blank]

That's what I suspected, yes.