Trouble with initializing database

Hi,

I am attempting a new installation of Request Tracker on Gentoo. I have
emerge’d rt using the provided ebuild and all required dependencies. I
am at the stage where I am initializing the database for the first time,
and this is where I am encountering some problems.

Running the command
/var/www/rt/rt-3.4.5/sbin/rt-setup-database --action init --dba root
–prompt-for-dba-password
results in:

Now creating a database for RT.
Creating mysql database rt3.
Now populating database schema.
Creating database schema.
Done setting up database schema.
Now inserting database ACLs
DBD::mysql::db prepare warning: at ./rt-setup-database line 347.
Died at ./rt-setup-database line 347.

The database and many tables have been created, but no data in any off
them. I have modified the rt-setup-database command switches to use the
user account specified in the RT_Config.pm file after granting that
account all the required privileges needed, same result.

In case it was a faulty ebuild I grabbed the latest source and compiled
it manually with the same result with ‘make initialize-database’.

Version numbers:
Apache: 2.0.55-r1
mod_perl: 2.0.1-r2
MySQL: 5.0.18-r30

Let me know if I need to provide anymore information.

Thanks

Russell