[mythtv-users] Database problem?

George Nassas gnassas at mac.com
Fri Oct 6 16:28:22 UTC 2006


On 6-Oct-06, at 11:58 AM, Peter Crighton wrote:

>> Is the hostname 'mythtv' registered in your /etc/hosts file, or on a
>> dns server somewhere? I'd try localhost instead.
>
> Tried that - no different, although "mysql mythconverg -h localhost -u
> mythtv -pmythtv" successfully connects to the database.

When you added mythtv to /etc/hosts was it mapping to 127.0.0.1 or  
the external IP? It's possible that mysql is only listening on the  
127 interface. You can verify this in /etc/mysql/my.cnf.

-George

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