[mythtv-users] 0.26 upgrade "no database selected"

Nick Rout nick.rout at gmail.com
Sat Oct 6 02:53:00 UTC 2012


On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Thomas Mashos <thomas at mashos.com> wrote:
>>
>> I wonder if it has to do with /etc/mythtv/config.xml not being "upgraded"?
>>
>
> Ok, now you're just guessing. That doesn't make any sense, your DB
> credentials don't change during an upgrade, so there wouldn't be any
> reason to "upgrade" the file. Further, as I've said before, on a clean
> install the upgrade works fine, so it's something specific to your
> system.
>
> I'll ask again, this time to you. Did you verify that the 4 commands I
> posted return appropriate values? Did you test logging into mysql with
> all 4 of those values?
>
> If I were to guess what may have happened, it's that at some point in
> the past you reset your DB info and didn't update
> /etc/mythtv/config.xml, and because mythtv no longer uses mysql.txt in
> 0.26 you are just now seeing the issue on package upgrade.
>
> Thanks,

Well according to the file Bill Meek pointed to,
/etc/mythtv/config.xml /should/ be getting updated to a new format.


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