[mythtv-users] I can't make any progress in getting Mythtv to work

[John Finlay]

daryl wrote:
> When I run "sudo dpkg-reconfigure mythtv-common", I am able to change
> the username and password and they show up as I changed them in 
> ?home/daryl/.mythtv/mysql.txt. I then finish going through the 
> configuration page and when I click "finish" I am taken directly back to 
> the beginning of the configuration page. At this point I see that 
> username and password are not as I have changed them, but have reverted 
> back to the original "username=mythtv" and password=mythtv".
>
> It seems to me that this may be my problem, that whatever username is 
> set to, it is not being recognized.
>
> What do you think?
>   
I don't think that "sudo dpkg-reconfigure mythtv-common" will change the 
password in the mysql database. To check what's in the DB run:

mysql -u root mysql
mysql> select host,user,password from user\g

This assumes that there is no root password for the database (default I 
think in mythbuntu)
and should result in a list of users with hosts and passwords. I expect 
your new user name won't be in the list.

John