[mythtv-users] mythtv-users Digest, Vol 69, Issue 114
Brad DerManouelian
myth at dermanouelian.com
Fri Jan 9 05:01:09 UTC 2009
On Jan 8, 2009, at 8:50 PM, William M. Sorgenfrei wrote:
> I appreciate the advice. I tried mythbuntu and could not get it
> running.
> Had database problems. So I scrapped it and went back to suse11.1.
> As my
> luck would have it I am still having database issues.
>
> For whatever reason mythtv still cannot connect to the database. I
> have
> verified mysql.txt as well as the username and password. I can log
> into the
> database via mysql -u mythtv -p mythconverg. I also verified that the
> mythtv user account has the correct privs for the home directory.
>
> I have configured the system with a static ip address and I made an
> entry in
> the /etc/hosts file to ensure name resolution. Am I missing
> something? How
> do you configure the listener in MySQL? I noticed my.cnf has port
> 3306, but
> mythtv uses 6544 and 6543. Furthermore, I do not see any entries
> for the
> mythtv user or mythconverg in my.cnf
Look at the debugging stuff here:
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/MythFrontend
I bet your distro has mysql defaulting with binding to 127.0.0.1 and
you're trying to connect with the real IP address.
-Brad
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