[mythtv-users] DB Connection Error Ubuntu 9.10 JYA 0.23

George Galt george.galt at gmail.com
Mon Apr 19 18:27:16 UTC 2010


On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 9:02 AM, James Crow <crow.jamesm at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 8:17 AM, Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> On 19 April 2010 22:13, James Crow <crow.jamesm at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > The thing that appears odd to me is the "Using configuration directory =
>> > /.mythtv" I think it should be /home/mythtv/.mythtv. The users mythtv
>> > exists
>> > and has its home directory set to /home/mythtv. The /home/mythtv/.mythtv
>> > directory exists and has links to the /etc/mythtv config files.
>>
>> This issues was reported earlier, as well as the cause and how to fix
>> it...
>>
> Just so there will be an answer in users for the next person who searches
> this list, the solution is to remove the /etc/default/mythtv-backend file.
> The upstart job in /etc/init/mythtv-backend.conf contains a --user setting
> which imports the user environment. The /etc/default/mythtv-backend file
> does not contain the --user option. I imagine this will be fixed in a future
> update.
>
> Or you could do the hack I initially did and create a /.mythtv directory
> with links to /etc/mythtv/config.xml and /etc/mythtv/mysql.txt.
>
> Cheers,
> James
>
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As a further data point, I've got a similar issue on Fedora 12
(64-bit) using Axel's "Bleeding" repository, so this isn't limited to
Ubuntu.

George


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