[mythtv-users] MythTV Backend Setup fails on first steps

[Dustin Oprea]

On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 2:50 PM, Dick Steffens <dick at dicksteffens.com> wrote:

> I installed MythTV 0.27 on my Ubuntu 12.04 system.
>
> When I run
>
>     Applications -> System Tools -> Administration -> MythTV Backend Setup
>
> the first screen wants me to "Select the country in which you currently
> reside", followed by  "Select your preferred language". In both cases I
> accept the defaults of "United States United States" and "English (United
> States)". Then I use the right arrow key to move to the "Save" button.
> Pressing <Enter> takes me to a screen that says, "MythTV could not connect
> to the database. Please verify your database setting below." Those setting
> are:
>
>     Hostname: localhost
>     Port: 3306
>     Database name: mythconverg
>     User: mythtv
>     Password: mythtv
>
> The "Next" button takes me to the Database Configuration 2/2 screen, and
> "Finish" takes me back to the first screen.
>
> ps ax | grep mysql returns:
>
> 1147 ?    Ssl   0:07 /usr/sbin/mysqld
>
>
> mysql> show databases; returns:
>
>     Database
>     ---------------------------------
>     information_schema
>     mysql
>     mythconverg
>     performance_schema
>     test
>
> What do I need to do to figure out whatever isn't right here and fix it?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Dick Steffens
>
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Make sure that you can manually log-in to MySQL from the command-line:

mysql -u mythtv --password=mythtv -p -h localhost mythconverg



Dustin
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