[mythtv-users] mythfrontend can't connect to backend/database

[Michael T. Dean]

On 04/20/2008 01:03 PM, starcycle wrote:
> This is the error I'm getting, but I can't figure out what's wrong.
> mythtv user can log in to mysql on the server. I don't understand why
> it says it can't connect to MySQL server on localhost since the IP of
> the mysql server is entered in the field.
>
> Also, I noticed the ~/.mythtv directory and files were created with
> root:root ownership, which seems kind of weird since it's the user's
> directory. The mysql.txt file listed 192.168.0.1 as the database
> location, I changed that to the correct IP, but it still didn't work.
> Can anyone help sort this out?

Fix ~/.mythtv/config.xml .  Best bet is to rm 
~/.mythtv/{mysql.txt,config.xml} , then reconfigure.

Mike