[mythtv-users] mythbackend not starting on gentoo

Nick Rosier nick.rosier at gmail.com
Thu Oct 20 16:55:52 EDT 2005


On 10/20/05, Dirk grosse Osterhues <tud-gut at gmx.de> wrote:
> Nick Rosier wrote:
> > On 10/20/05, Dirk grosse Osterhues <tud-gut at gmx.de> wrote:
> >
> >>Hej,
> >>
> >>I forgot to say that after upgrading mysql I had no longer a
> >>/usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so.12 (/usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so.14 exists). I
> >>created the symlink myself and received the errors I already reported.
> >>
> >>Now I removed the symlink again and get the following output from
> >>mythbackend (also after a recompile of mythtv):
> >>
> >>
> >>>QSqlDatabase: QMYSQL3 driver not loaded
> >>>QSqlDatabase: available drivers:
> >>>2005-10-20 12:15:28.424 New DB connection, total: 1
> >>>2005-10-20 12:15:28.425 Unable to connect to database!
> >>>2005-10-20 12:15:28.426 No error type from QSqlError?  Strange...
> >>>2005-10-20 12:15:28.426 Failed to init MythContext, exiting.
> >>
> >>Any more ideas?
> >
> >
> > remove that link you created and run revdep-rebuild. it will check all
> > library dependencies and rebuild any builds that are missing some. you
> > can run it with the option -p (pretend) to check what it's going to
> > rebuild 1st.
>
> Thanks for that idea. In fact the problem was with qt which libmysql
> mythtv wanted to use for access to the database. Now it works.

After (major) upgrades it's allways a good thing to check dependencies
with revdep-rebuild.

N.


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