Create federated table hangs on 5.0.18

[Philip Smith]

When I try to create a federated table (to the same server) it just hangs

user root set up with no password with full access. Seems to log in OK, but fails to open the remote table to run the SELECT.

SQL entered:
create table AgentTable (ID int(4) auto_increment not null, Str varchar(255), primary key (ID) ) ENGINE=FEDERATED DEFAULT CHARACTER SET latin1 CONNECTION='mysql://root:@localhost:3306/Results00000001_1/AgentTable';

If I connect to the server, and see what is running, this is what I see.

mysql> show processlist;
+----+------+-----------------+-------------------+---------+------+----------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Id | User | Host | db | Command | Time | State | Info |
+----+------+-----------------+-------------------+---------+------+----------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| 3 | root | localhost | Results00000001 | Query | 112 | creating table | create table AgentTable (ID int(4) auto_increment not null, Str varchar(255), primary key (ID) ) ENG |
| 4 | root | localhost:54019 | Results00000001_1 | Query | 112 | Opening tables | SELECT * FROM `AgentTable` WHERE 1=0 |
| 5 | root | localhost | NULL | Query | 0 | NULL | show processlist |
+----+------+-----------------+-------------------+---------+------+----------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

And I never get any further.

Any ideas ?