Comment 7 for bug 1376154

Ok, so I found that this has already been reported upstream to mysql, see: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=74147

That bug says it's an incompatibility with libglib 2.42. There's a patch at http://bugs.mysql.com/file.php?id=21874&bug_id=74147 that fixes the problem.

If you want to patch and build mysql-workbench yourself, you can get the source from for 6.2.3 from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/file.php?id=453799. From the directory you downloaded it to, do:

tar xvf mysql-workbench-community-6.2.3-src.tar.gz
cd mysql-workbench-community-6.2.3-src
wget -O patch-glib.diff http://bugs.mysql.com/file.php?id=21874&bug_id=74147
patch -p0 < patch-glib.diff
sudo apt-get build-dep mysql-workbench
sudo apt-get install libgdal-dev
cd build
cmake .. -DBUILD_CONFIG=mysql_release
make
sudo make install