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

[Phil Bridges]

On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 9:06 PM, starcycle <starcycle at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 8:56 PM, starcycle <starcycle at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 8:51 PM, starcycle <starcycle at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >  >
>  >  >  root at moe:~ # perror l
>  >  >  OS error code   0:  Success
>  >
>  >  oh shoot - I guess that was supposed to be perror 1. :p
>  >
>  >  root at moe:~ # perror 1
>  >
>  > OS error code   1:  Operation not permitted
>  >
>  >  okay - so perhaps changing /var/run/mysqld to /var/lib/mysql would
>  >  work? trying ... thanks
>  >
>
>  Nope, didn't work. Also, that wouldn't explain why the localhost can
>  access the database, would it? only the networked clients can't access
>  it.
>
>  damn, i'm about ready to give up. nothing on linux has ever given me
>  this much trouble. it doesn't make sense -- something apparently is
>  just fubared.
>

Look at your my.cnf on your backend.  What does it say in this section?
# security:
# using "localhost" in connects uses sockets by default
# skip-networking
# bind-address                          = 127.0.0.1