From: Date: July 1 2009 11:40am
Subject: Re: Error connecting to master [cluster-replication]
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Jonas Oreland wrote:
> Yan Anic wrote:
>   
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am having a problem when starting a cluster replication with MySQL
>> cluster 7.0.6.
>>
>> Master and Slave clusters are up and running but I get a common
>> problem from the replication side: IO Thread does not start with an
>> error "error connecting to master 'repl@localhost:13307' - retry-time:
>> 60  retries: 86400"
>>
>> I tested my connection parameters and it seems they are OK.
>>     
How did you test this?
The best way is to log into the slave-system and run something like this:

$ mysql -u repl -P 13307 -h localhost --protocol=tcp -p

And see how that works. Usually it's related to GRANTs on the slave user 
account.

>> I just set up a cluster-replication with version 6.3 and all works as
>> expected, there.
>>
>>     
Would it be possible that the mysql.user table looks different on those 
two setups?