diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index e869b26e2..111b565b7 100755
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -5,6 +5,11 @@ phpMyAdmin - Changelog
 $Id$
 $Source$
 
+2005-01-28 Marc Delisle  <lem9@users.sourceforge.net>
+    * libraries/dbi/mysqli.dbi.lib.php: bug #1111706, call to undefined
+      function PMA_reloadNavigation(). A failed connection was not properly
+      detected
+
 2005-01-27 Marc Delisle  <lem9@users.sourceforge.net>
     * libraries/fpdf/fpdf.php: bug #1106146, missing header for PDF,
       thanks to Michal
diff --git a/libraries/dbi/mysqli.dbi.lib.php b/libraries/dbi/mysqli.dbi.lib.php
index 5e1f3fe19..6595517e9 100644
--- a/libraries/dbi/mysqli.dbi.lib.php
+++ b/libraries/dbi/mysqli.dbi.lib.php
@@ -68,9 +68,9 @@ function PMA_DBI_connect($user, $password) {
 
     $client_flags = $cfg['Server']['compress'] && defined('MYSQLI_CLIENT_COMPRESS') ? MYSQLI_CLIENT_COMPRESS : 0;
 
-    @mysqli_real_connect($link, $cfg['Server']['host'], $user, $password, FALSE, $server_port, $server_socket, $client_flags);
+    $return_value = @mysqli_real_connect($link, $cfg['Server']['host'], $user, $password, FALSE, $server_port, $server_socket, $client_flags);
 
-    if (empty($link)) {
+    if ($return_value == FALSE) {
         PMA_auth_fails();
     } // end if