[mythtv-users] Recent Gentoo mysql update broke backend startup

Robert Longbottom RobertCL at iname.com
Fri Nov 12 10:13:42 UTC 2010


On Fri, November 12, 2010 9:40 am, Robin Gilks wrote:
> This is a weird one - not restarted the machine for a couple of months but
> tonight having done so I find that the backend won't start from the init
> script. It runs fine off the command line as root user but if I su to the
> mythtv user it asks if I want to configure the database connection.
>
> The error is that it can't connect to the mysql server. Nothing has
> changed in the startup script so it must be something with the way the
> mysql server does stuff now having moved from 5.0.90 to 5.1.50
>
> Anyone any ideas?

Uh-oh, I've just run that update on my Gentoo box :-o

Have you checked that you have mysql.txt under your mythtv account? 
Sounds like you might have it for root, but not for mythtv.  Though why
that would have changed I don't know.

Robert.





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