Affected Version: 2.5.4
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Follow the guide using as standard linux utf8 configured server.
What is the expected output?
Working Gerrit Server
What do you see instead?
Same problem as described in Issue 1330 .
To fix the problem the encoding needs to be set to utf8 when creating the database. This will lead to the bug described in Issue 1273 .
To solve this issue it is necessary to add the url connection string to etc/gerrit.config in the gerrit root.
url = jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/reviewdb?sessionVariables=storage_engine=InnoDB
These problems and solutions are known but cannot be found in the official documentation.