Openfire 3.6.4 & MySQL seem to hang

Hello all,

I have been trying to get Openfire 3.6.4 to run on a fresh install of Ubuntu Sever, which I just downloaded from their site.

The first install I did using the embeded database didnt work because I couldnt get past the password to login as admin.

reinstalled Ubuntu server and Openfire and this time created MySQL database. I’m not sure what is missing but in the config is hanging at the

Database Settings - Standard Connections screen.

after about 5 green bars on the page load it stops

it eventualy it times out and says to check the /logs/error.log,

I see error on line 41 of document : The reference to entity “characterEncoding” must end with the ‘;’ deliminter