headaches with phpmyadmin
 

In phpmyadmin, but when i want to create a new database, it tells me :

#1064 - 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

any idea what is wrong ?

i tried to add privileges, but it is the same thing after that.

MY configuration :

Linux Mandriva 2005

XAMPP Linux 1.4.13 (Apache 2.0.53, MySQL 4.1.11, PHP 5.0.4 & 4.3.11 & PEAR + SQLite 2.8.9/2.8.14 + multibyte (mbstring) support, Perl 5.8.6, ProFTPD 1.2.10, phpMyAdmin 2.6.1-pl3, OpenSSL 0.9.7d, GD 2.0.1, Freetype2 2.1.7, libjpeg 6b, libpng 1.2.7, gdbm 1.8.0, zlib 1.1.4, expat 1.2, Sablotron 1.0, libxml 2.4.26, Ming 0.2a, Webalizer 2.01, pdf class 009e, ncurses 5.8, mod_perl 2.0.0-RC4, FreeTDS 0.62.4, gettext 0.11.5, IMAP C-Client 2002b, OpenLDAP (client) 2.2.13, mcrypt 2.5.7, mhash 0.8.18, eAccelerator 0.9.2a, cURL 7.13.1, libxslt 1.1.8, phpSQLiteAdmin 0.2, libapreq 2.04-dev)
MD5 checsum: 65643bf5cac992f455b89d06ba8ee267

i tried to look at the config files but i have no idea how to set them :

/opt/lampp/etc/httpd.conf The Apache configuration file.
/opt/lampp/etc/my.cnf The MySQL configuration file.
/opt/lampp/etc/php.ini The PHP configuration file.
/opt/lampp/etc/proftpd.conf The ProFTPD configuration file. (since 0.9.5)
/opt/lampp/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php The phpMyAdmin configuration file

any help would be very welcome

Well I guess the first thing to do is to post your /etc/my.cnf
Did you configure lampp after it was installed?
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-linux.html#379
Also xampp installs its own mysql and you may have another running!

here it is :

# Example mysql config file for medium systems.
#
# This is for a system with little memory (32M - 64M) where MySQL plays
# a important part and systems up to 128M very MySQL is used together with
# other programs (like a web server)
#
# You can copy this file to
# /etc/my.cnf to set global options,
# mysql-data-dir/my.cnf to set server-specific options (in this
# installation this directory is /opt/lampp/var/mysql) or
# ~/.my.cnf to set user-specific options.
#
# One can in this file use all long options that the program supports.
# If you want to know which options a program support, run the program
# with --help option.

# The following options will be passed to all MySQL clients
[client]
#password = your_password
port = 3306
socket = /opt/lampp/var/mysql/mysql.sock

# Here follows entries for some specific programs

# The MySQL server
[mysqld]
# commented out by lampp security
#port = 3306
port = 0
socket = /opt/lampp/var/mysql/mysql.sock
skip-locking
set-variable = key_buffer=16M
set-variable = max_allowed_packet=1M
set-variable = table_cache=64
set-variable = sort_buffer=512K
set-variable = net_buffer_length=8K
set-variable = myisam_sort_buffer_size=8M
# log-bin deactivated by default since XAMPP 1.4.11
#log-bin
server-id = 1

# Point the following paths to different dedicated disks
tmpdir = /tmp/
#log-update = /path-to-dedicated-directory/hostname

# Uncomment the following if you are using BDB tables
#set-variable = bdb_cache_size=4M
#set-variable = bdb_max_lock=10000

skip-innodb
# Uncomment the following if you are using InnoDB tables
#innodb_data_home_dir = /opt/lampp/var/mysql/
#innodb_data_file_path = ibdata1:10M:autoextend
#innodb_log_group_home_dir = /opt/lampp/var/mysql/
#innodb_log_arch_dir = /opt/lampp/var/mysql/
# You can set .._buffer_pool_size up to 50 - 80 %
# of RAM but beware of setting memory usage too high
#set-variable = innodb_buffer_pool_size=16M
#set-variable = innodb_additional_mem_pool_size=2M
# Set .._log_file_size to 25 % of buffer pool size
#set-variable = innodb_log_file_size=5M
#set-variable = innodb_log_buffer_size=8M
#innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit=1
#set-variable = innodb_lock_wait_timeout=50

[mysqldump]
quick
set-variable = max_allowed_packet=16M

[mysql]
no-auto-rehash
# Remove the next comment character if you are not familiar with SQL
#safe-updates

[isamchk]
set-variable = key_buffer=20M
set-variable = sort_buffer=20M
set-variable = read_buffer=2M
set-variable = write_buffer=2M

[myisamchk]
set-variable = key_buffer=20M
set-variable = sort_buffer=20M
set-variable = read_buffer=2M
set-variable = write_buffer=2M

[mysqlhotcopy]
interactive-timeout