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It's very possible the error is something different. But since this is the only source of a MantisBT Database install.php check "No file or directory" error I figured I'd add my experience. I was only trying to be helpful to future folk who Google search for this exact, obscure error message phrase ...

I came across this error today:

Attempting to connect to database as admin

BAD.
Does administrative user have access to the database? ( No such file or directory )

Eventually tracked down that I had 'localhost' set as the g_hostname in my config file, and the database server wasn't running. The ...