# Rake aborted!

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-aborted/125623>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [January 10, 2008, 6:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-aborted/125623 "2008-01-10T18:37:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![dev\_ror](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/c4cdca/32.png) [@dev\_ror](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dev_ror)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2008, 6:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-aborted/125623/1 "2008-01-10T18:37:59Z")

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pl help  
i get this msg when i try to run

rake db:migrate

rake aborted!  
#28000Access denied for user ‘root’@‘localhost’

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**Author:** ![dev\_ror](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/c4cdca/32.png) [@dev\_ror](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dev_ror)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2008, 6:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-aborted/125623/2 "2008-01-10T18:44:26Z")

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Have you verified that root@localhost has DB permissions? Had that  
same issue until I added a user to the DB with that username and  
authorized host.

Hope that helps.

dhf

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**Author:** ![dev\_ror](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/c4cdca/32.png) [@dev\_ror](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dev_ror)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2008, 6:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-aborted/125623/3 "2008-01-11T06:27:44Z")

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ya root is the only user  
and has all perms  
yet this error persists…

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**Author:** ![dev\_ror](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/c4cdca/32.png) [@dev\_ror](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dev_ror)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2008, 7:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-aborted/125623/4 "2008-01-11T07:26:49Z")

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Oh! access denied  
Shame! perhaps database.yml,  
does not have password set?

When you type like this  
It seems as if a tiny mouse  
Jumps on enter key

On Jan 11, 2008 3:56 PM, dev\_ror [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> > Hope that helps.
> > 
> > > rake aborted!  
> > > #28000Access denied for user ‘root’@‘localhost’

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**Author:** ![dev\_ror](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/c4cdca/32.png) [@dev\_ror](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dev_ror)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2008, 3:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-aborted/125623/5 "2008-01-11T15:18:52Z")

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nah they are my gigantic fingers jumpn across the kbd