[mythtv-users] mythbackend startscript broken on fedora 19

[Raymond Wagner]

On 03/02/14 06:13, mythtvuser at vandrosthagen.net wrote:
> Hello there,
> 
> Since last week i updated my mythtv setup to version 0.27 on fedora and
> all is well. It was verry scary because i am using iptv and on 0.25 en
> 0.26 it was really broken that is why i stayed on 0.24..;) But can say
> iptv is working like a charm in 0.27.
> 
> But now my problem.. After i installed everyting all was working well
> the only failure i have is that mythbackend is not starting on boot. The
> problem i have with it is that if i start the script mythackend gets an
> error
> 
> 2014-03-02 13:09:09.269457 N [25523/25523] thread_unknown
> mythdirs.cpp:55 (InitializeMythDirs) - Using runtime prefix = /usr
> 2014-03-02 13:09:09.269461 N [25523/25523] thread_unknown
> mythdirs.cpp:61 (InitializeMythDirs) - Read conf dir = /var/lib/mythtv
> 2014-03-02 13:09:09.269476 N [25523/25523] thread_unknown
> mythdirs.cpp:68 (InitializeMythDirs) - Using configuration directory =
> /var/lib/mythtv
> 2014-03-02 13:09:09.269537 I [25523/25523] CoreContext
> mythcorecontext.cpp:249 (Init) - Assumed character encoding: en_US.UTF-8
> 2014-03-02 13:09:09.269692 E [25523/25523] CoreContext
> mythdbparams.cpp:39 (IsValid) - DBHostName is not set in config.xml
> 2014-03-02 13:09:09.269703 E [25523/25523] CoreContext
> mythdbparams.cpp:39 (IsValid) - DBHostName is not set in config.xml
> 2014-03-02 13:09:09.269710 N [25523/25523] CoreContext
> mythcontext.cpp:504 (LoadDatabaseSettings) - Empty LocalHostName.
> 2014-03-02 13:09:09.269713 I [25523/25523] CoreContext
> mythcontext.cpp:512 (LoadDatabaseSettings) - Using localhost value of mythtv
> 2014-03-02 13:09:09.275498 E [25523/25523] CoreContext mythdbcon.cpp:216
> (OpenDatabase) - Unable to connect to database!
> 2014-03-02 13:09:09.275509 E [25523/25523] CoreContext mythdbcon.cpp:217
> (OpenDatabase) - Driver error was [1/1045]:
> QMYSQL: Unable to connect
> Database error was:
> Access denied for user 'mythtv'@'localhost' (using password: YES)
> 
> 
> But when i start mythbackend manual under the user mythtv with the
> command " /usr/bin/mythbackend --daemon --logpath /var/log/mythtv"
> everything is working fine.
> 
> I saw during startup in the log that the script was looking for config
> in the /var/lib/mythtv so i thought ok the files like mysql.txt and
> config.xml are in my setup under /home/mythtv/.mythtv so decided to
> softlink the dir .mythtv to /var/lib/mythtv/.mythtv but no luck.. Still
> i get the error above.

Does the 'mythtv' user have full read/write access to the contents of
your personal user's ~/.mythtv/ directory?