Ruby on Rails MySQL #08S01Bad handshake - downgrade MySQL?

Question

We recently upgraded from MySQL 5.1.41 to 5.1.61 on our Ubuntu 10.04LTS server. We have an ancient RoR web app that\'s now giving a bad handshake error:

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Answer 1

I fixed it! Downgrading MySQL did the trick. We'll re-upgrade to 5.1.61 once the Django site goes live. Here's the command to downgrade MySQL:

sudo aptitude install mysql-server-5.1=5.1.41-3ubuntu12 mysql-client-5.1=5.1.41-3ubuntu12 mysql-server-core-5.1=5.1.41-3ubuntu12

I used apt-cache to get the exact version.