MySQL Workbench Cannot start SSH tunnel manager

I do not have access to Slackware but I believe you need to install the Python binding/wrapper libraries for paramiko as well. At least that's the case on Fedora/CentOS and other distros from what I can gather from this forum post titled: MySQL Forums :: MySQL Workbench :: Ubuntu: Cannot start SSH tunnel manager.

thanks ! install python-paramiko solve my problem.

If that doesn't resolve your issue there may be some packages missing/corrupt that require re-installation. Again this tip comes from that same thread I mentioned above and is directed towards Ubuntu, but may shed some light on what's wrong in your particular case.

Posted by: Roman Schaller () Date: July 02, 2012 04:00PM

Although I had the same problem, this was not the solution to my Ubuntu 12.4. I solved it this way:

First I checked what was logged to the console if I start the workbench from command line. There I could see some more details:

    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Crypto/Random/__init__.py",
    line 28, in <module>  from Crypto.Random import OSRNG  ImportError:
    cannot import name OSRNG

This lead me to reinstall some python crypto packages with synaptic. I reinstalled following packages:

    python (2.7.3-0ubuntu2)  python-all
    (2.7.3-0ubuntu2)  python-appindicator (0.4.92-0ubuntu1)  python-apport
    (2.0.1-0ubuntu10)  python-apt (0.8.3ubuntu7)  python-apt-common
    (0.8.3ubuntu7)  python-aptdaemon (0.43+bzr805-0ubuntu2) 
    python-aptdaemon-gtk (0.43+bzr805-0ubuntu2) 
    python-aptdaemon.gtk3widgets (0.43+bzr805-0ubuntu2) 
    python-aptdaemon.gtkwidgets (0.43+bzr805-0ubuntu2) 
    python-aptdaemon.pkcompat (0.43+bzr805-0ubuntu2)  python-avahi
    (0.6.30-5ubuntu2)  python-beautifulsoup (3.2.0-2build1)  python-cairo
    (1.8.8-1ubuntu3)  python-crypto (2.4.1-1ubuntu0.1) 
    python-gnomekeyring (2.32.0+dfsg-1)  python-gnupginterface
    (0.3.2-9.1ubuntu3)  python-mysql.connector (0.3.2-1)  python-oauth
    (1.0.1-3build1)  python-openssl (0.12-1ubuntu2)  python-paramiko
    (1.7.7.1-2)  python-pycryptopp (0.5.29-1build1) 

I'm pretty sure only one of them was the cause of my problem. Probably python-openssl or python-paramiko. I can't test it again. Maybe someone else can figure it out...

install packages pycrypto and paramiko, download in slackbuilds.org.

Just came across this question. I ran into this problem on Fedora 20 and discovered, duhhhh, that I had installed the 32-bit version of mysql-workbench on 64-bit Fedora 20 instead of the 64-bit version. After uninstalling the 32-bit version:

$ sudo yum remove mysql-workbench

and installing the 64-bit version instead

$ sudo yum localinstall mysql-workbench-community-6.1.7-1.fc20.x86_64.rpm

I fired it up and it worked no problems. No doubt you do have to have python-paramik etc. installed as others have said, but on Fedora 20 that all seemed to be fine. The whole problem was the 32-bit version of mysql-workbench.