[mythtv-users] Cannot get the backend to run

[Michael Rice]

On 5/22/09, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Tom Lichti <redpepperracing at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >> On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Nick Morrott
>  >> <knowledgejunkie at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >>> On 22/05/2009, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >>>
>  >>>>  Now, I've run the commands to set priviledges a couple of times, but
>  >>>>  apparently I haven't done it right, or I'm missing some other setup
>  >>>>  thing.
>  >>>
>  >>> What were the GRANT commands you used to provide access by IP for the
>  >>> machine(s) in question? Did they resemble
>  >>>
>  >>> mysql> grant all on mythconverg.* to mythtv@"192.168.1.%" identified
>  >>> by "password";
>  >>> mysql> flush privileges;
>  >>>
>  >>>
>  >>> Nick
>  >>>
>  >>> --
>  >>> Nick Morrott
>  >>
>  >> Yes Nick, those are the commands. I think first I did one of the less
>  >> open ones but when it didn't work I issued the ones above.
>  >>
>  >> Mainly I was using these pages:
>  >>
>  >> http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/MythTV
>  >> http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-6.html
>  >>
>  >> The commands were just copied from the myth.org page.
>  >>
>  >> I hope it is clear that this is a COMPLETELY new server. There are no
>  >> recordings and I can do ANYTHING to get it working, including throwing
>  >> away ALL mysql stuff and starting over from scratch. It's not an
>  >> issue.

Stuff that was got me in the past:

1.  Software firewall.  Does it work with the firewall off?

2.  Once I didn't heed the warning in my /etc/hosts file:

# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1               localhost.localdomain localhost masterbackend
::1             localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6