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

[Martin Moores]

On 8 Feb 2014 20:33, "Dick Steffens" <dick at dicksteffens.com> wrote:
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> On 02/08/2014 11:54 AM, Dustin Oprea wrote:
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>> On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 2:50 PM, Dick Steffens <dick at dicksteffens.com>
wrote:
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> <snip>
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>>> Pressing <Enter> takes me to a screen that says, "MythTV could not
connect to the database. Please verify your database setting below."
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>
> <snip>
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>>> What do I need to do to figure out whatever isn't right here and fix it?
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> <snip>
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>> Make sure that you can manually log-in to MySQL from the command-line:
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>> mysql -u mythtv --password=mythtv -p -h localhost mythconverg
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>
> Well, that's where the problem is:
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> ~$ mysql -u mythtv -password=mythtv -p -h localhost mythconverg
> Enter password:
> Error 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'mythtv'@'localhost' (using
password: YES)
>
> I tried mythtv as the password it asked for. I also tried the mysql root
password I created during the installation, and I tried my system user
password. I got the same error message for all three.
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> Thanks. Now, how do I fix it? Just go into mysql and reset the mythtv
user password? Or is something amiss?
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> --
> Regards,
>
> Dick Steffens
>
>

When you tried your root password, did you change the command to "-u root"
instead of "-u mythtv"?

Martin
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