[mythtv-users] mythfilldatabase fails on every query

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Thu Apr 26 16:01:23 UTC 2007


On 04/26/2007 11:57 AM, William Munson wrote:
> Jeffrey Bush wrote:
>   
>> I just installed MythTV and I have just finished importing mc.sql into my
>> mysql database and running mythtv-setup. Like I should, I than ran
>> mythfilldatabase, which ends up failing no every query. It cannot create the
>> tables and it cannot insert (obviously) because the tables don't exist (and
>> that is the error it gives).
> Not an expert here. It appears that mythtv-setup is accessing the 
> database so your password and user are correct. Assuming you are in the 
> usa then perhaps there is something wrong with your zap2it account. 
> Maybe its expired, maybe they are just having problems right now. Log 
> into your account to make sure its active and that your lineup is still 
> there.  If that is correct then delete your sources and recreate them. 
> When you run the "fetch channels from provider" button, does it populate 
> the channels for that source? If you forget to push that button, 
> mythfilldatabase will fail.

Or you didn't give the mythtv user (in MySQL) permissions allowing 
temporary table creation.

Mike


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