[mythtv-users] mac osx frontend and mysql

Bryan Halter bhalter at armyofpenguins.com
Thu Oct 27 19:41:53 EDT 2005


Did you check in the my.cnf on your backend that mysql is not only bound 
to 127.0.0.1?

Paul McKellar wrote:
> i ran the various lines in the documentation, unless knoppmyth does
> its own thing, because i can't remember if it said "1 lines altered" 
> or 0 lines altered.  i seem to remember it saying 0 and then, being
> like "well that must not be the problem"  but if the identified phrase
> to specify which lines isn't correct, then the problem would not have
> been fixed.
>
> Paul
>
> On 10/26/05, Chris Ribe <chrisribe at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> No, you do not need to install MySQL on the Mac to get the frontend working.
>>  It has been almost a year since I have run a frontend on OSX so I don't
>> remember all of the details, but installing MySQL wasn't one of them.
>>
>>  The database runs on the backend, the frontend software knows how to talk
>> to it.
>>
>>  Did you make the changes necesary to allow the remote connection to the
>> database?
>>
>>  I forget the specifics, but searching something along the lines of 'remote
>> frontend permissions connect' should net you an answer.
>>
>>
>> On 10/26/05, Paul McKellar <socialmoth.blog at gmail.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> do i need to install mysql on my mac before i can use the frontend?  i
>>> get this message
>>>
>>> 2005-10-26 22:29:39.934 Database not open while trying to save setting:
>>>       
>> Language
>>     
>>> 2005-10-26 22:29:39.936 Unable to connect to database!
>>> 2005-10-26 22:29:39.936 Driver error was [1/2003]:
>>> QMYSQL3: Unable to connect
>>> Database error was:
>>> Can't connect to MySQL server on '192.168.1.5' (61)
>>>
>>> 2005-10-26 22:29:41.905 Unable to connect to database!
>>> 2005-10-26 22:29:41.906 Driver error was [1/2003]:
>>> QMYSQL3: Unable to connect
>>> Database error was:
>>> Can't connect to MySQL server on '192.168.1.5' (61)
>>>
>>> 2005-10-26 22:29:41.906 Failed to init MythContext, exiting.
>>>
>>> I can't find anything in the stuff about mythcontext either.  So is
>>> mysql compiled in?  I get teh same error no matter whoes build i use.
>>>
>>> Paul
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