[mythtv-users] More hours of messing with mythtv yield zero result

Igor Chudov igor at chudov.com
Tue Jan 13 21:25:58 UTC 2009


On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 04:21:50PM -0500, John Drescher wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Igor Chudov <igor at chudov.com> wrote:
> > I have Ubuntu Intrepid and installed mythtv by means of apt-get.
> >
> > I have spent dozens of hours on this already and there is no end to an
> > incredible mess.
> >
> > The previous problem was, apparently, that mysql setup was all messed
> > up and log on to mysql was not set up properly. But mythtv was saying
> > all kinds of nonsense like "check that mysql server is running"
> > instead of plainly saying that it could not log on.
> >
> > Basically nothing works and mythtv produces some incomprehensible
> > error messages (or no messages) that never lead to anything
> > productive. It is like fighting through a thick forest.
> >
> 
> My advice. Make sure you can open a terminal window and login to the
> mythconverg database:
> 
> john at jmd0 ~ $ mysql -u mythtv -p mythconverg
> Enter password:
> Reading table information for completion of table and column names
> You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A
> 
> Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
> Your MySQL connection id is 126
> Server version: 5.0.70-log Gentoo Linux mysql-5.0.70-r1
> 
> Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer.
> 
> mysql>
> 
> John

user tv's mythtv settings in mysql.txt, related to mysql, are as follows: 

DBUserName=mythtv
DBPassword=crap0
DBName=mythconverg

Trying to connect to mysql by using these credentials are successful:

kinozal:tv:~==>echo SELECT NULL | mysql -umythtv -pcrap0 mythconverg
NULL
NULL

So at this point the problem, wherever it is, is not about database
credentials, unless I am missing something. Despite the annoyed tone
of my previous message, I would like to solve my mythtv problems. 

i



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