[mythtv-users] mythtv-database problem (Debian Testing)

George Nassas gnassas at mac.com
Wed Jun 16 17:38:38 UTC 2010


On 2010-06-16, at 12:12 PM, Jongi wrote:

> Setting up mythtv-database (0.23-0.2) ...
> Failed to connect to database: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES) at -e line 5, <> line 1.
> 
> Any ideas on what could be causing this? mysql was not touched by the system update.

Assuming your setup is pure debian multimedia packages you're missing a config.xml or mysql.txt for the root user.

Copy your myth user's .mythtv/config.xml into /root/.mythtv and try again.

- George

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