[mythtv-users] new user with error...please point me toward the appropriate reading

Mike Chandler michaelachandler at cox.net
Sun Jan 28 17:01:32 UTC 2007


On Sunday 28 January 2007 08:19, Nick Morrott wrote:

> For some reason (incorrect installation, tinkering, etc) your frontend
> system is trying to connect to the wrong database. The MythTV database
> is usually called 'mythconverg' whereas your log output shows your
> system trying to connect to 'mysql'.
>
> You should have a ~/.mythtv/mysql.txt file (where ~ is the home
> directory for your frontend user) - open it in a text editor and edit
> the line:
>
> DBName=mysql
>
> to
>
> DBName=mythconverg
>
> Save the file, and then restart the frontend.
>
> Nick

Thanks Nick, that fixed that part of my problem, now it looks like I'm back to 
getting mysql to connect. I struggled with this most all day yesterday and 
don't remember how I got it to work at all.
Query was:
SELECT NULL;
No error type from QSqlError?  Strange...
2007-01-28 09:00:23.774 Writing settings file /home/mike/.mythtv/mysql.txt
2007-01-28 09:00:23.804 Unable to connect to database!
2007-01-28 09:00:23.804 Driver error was [1/1045]:
QMYSQL3: Unable to connect
Database error was:
Access denied for user 'mysql'@'localhost' (using password: YES)

QSqlQuery::exec: database not open
QSqlQuery::exec: database not open
2007-01-28 09:00:23.869 DB Error (KickDatabase):
Query was:
SELECT NULL;
No error type from QSqlError?  Strange...
2007-01-28 09:00:23.928 Failed to init MythContext, exiting.
mike at localhost:~$                                         


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