Hi!,

Did see the same error in this forum topic:

http://www.concrete5.org/community/forums/chat/unable-to-empty-tras...

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I get no empty trash errors as I am not trying to empty any transh. I am on a windows 7 system. the error is from the very first screen filling up the db info.

should have posted this opps.

Mysql: •Server version: 5.5.37-cll - MySQL Community Server (GPL)

# Server Software
Apache/2.2.26 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.26 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 DAV/2 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635

# Server API
cgi-fcgi

# PHP Version
5.4.24

# PHP Extensions
bcmath, calendar, cgi-fcgi, Core, ctype, curl, date, dom, ereg, exif, filter, ftp, gd, gettext, hash, iconv, imap, ionCube Loader, json, libxml, mbstring, mcrypt, mysql, mysqli, mysqlnd, openssl, pcre, PDO, pdo_mysql, pdo_sqlite, Phar, posix, pspell, Reflection, session, SimpleXML, soap, sockets, SourceGuardian, SPL, sqlite3, standard, tidy, tokenizer, wddx, xml, xmlreader, xmlrpc, xmlwriter, xsl, Zend Guard Loader, zip, zlib.

# PHP Settings
max_execution_time - 30
log_errors_max_len - 1024
max_file_uploads - 20
max_input_nesting_level - 64
max_input_time - 60
max_input_vars - 1000
memory_limit - 32M
post_max_size - 20M
sql.safe_mode - Off
upload_max_filesize - 30M
mysql.max_links - Unlimited
mysql.max_persistent - Unlimited
mysqli.max_links - Unlimited
mysqli.max_persistent - Unlimited
pcre.backtrack_limit - 1000000
pcre.recursion_limit - 100000
session.cache_limiter - nocache
session.gc_maxlifetime - 7200
soap.wsdl_cache_limit - 5

I'm not sure if this helps
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14612551/mysql-remote-connection...

Just don't use character like @#$%^&* etc. in your DB-password, only upper- and lowercase and digits.

We will be looking into why this is the case and fix it shortly (since punctuation in database passwords is pretty common and obviously something that should work.)