[mythtv-users] Can't connect to MYSQL

[Robert McNamara]

On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 6:53 PM, Mike A <mlnx at mho.com> wrote:
> Still can't connect, but I have more info. When mythtv-setup executes a
> terminal window appears with event messages but is only visible a very short
>  time since the mythtv screen comes up and covers everything.  After running
> it several times I was able to piece together the following messages.
>
> Runtime prefix /usr
> Using config dir ~/.mythv
> Using local hose value of localhost
> SQL Database: QMYSQL3 driver not loaded
> SQL Database: available drivers:
> Unable to init db connection
> New Database connection Total:1
> SQL Database Opendatabase(): db object is not valid
>
> It seems I am missing a driver. Does the 3 in QMYSQL3 mean Qt3.  I do not
> have qt3 installed, just  qt4.  However since I installed mythtv with Ubuntu
> 10.4 distribution packages, I would think they would include any qt3 libs.

Please bottom post on our lists.

No.  QMYSQL3 means Qt MySQL driver for MySQL versions 3 and later.

> Anybody know what qt3 package I need to install?

You don't need to.  But the above message *does* mean you are missing
a Qt4 mysql package.  On Ubuntu this means libqt4-sql-mysql and
libqt4-sql.

Robert