[mythtv-users] MythTV Install

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Richard,

Monday, September 8, 2014, 12:31:21 AM, you wrote:

> Thanks. I am learning.
> Do I need to create a password for the db when installing MythTV or should I leave it blank?
> How do I reconnect the frontend to the back end if the error pops up again?
> On Sep 7, 2014 5:51 PM, "Hika van den Hoven" <hikavdh at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hoi Richard,
>  
>  Sunday, September 7, 2014, 11:42:47 PM, you wrote:
>  
 >> When I purge MythTV, does it leave files like that behind? Is the database purged, as well?
 >> When I did a clean install if Ubuntu and then MythTV, it would ask
 >> me to create a db password or leave it blank. Should I leave it blank or enter mythtv?
 >> I will get you the info when I return home.
 >> On Sep 7, 2014 4:36 PM, "Mike Perkins"
 >> <mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk> wrote:
>  
 >> On 07/09/14 20:57, Richard Brook wrote:
 >>
 >>  I did this At my home yesterday and today. I do not need to preserve any
 >>  directories since I only watch live TV or record, watch once, and erase.
 >>
 >>  The install used to inform me that I needed to be added to a group. I ran a
 >>  grep command to see if I was listed in the group. I was.
 >>
 >>  I read online that it as a good idea to create the db password MythTV,
 >>  during install.
 >>
 >>
>   (Please don't top post.)
 >>
 >>  Debian and Ubuntu have a quirk that when you install mythtv, the
 >> database 'mythconverg' is created with a randomised password. This
 >> is supposed to be a security measure.
 >>
 >>  To find out what password was created, go to the home directory of
 >> the mythtv user (usually 'mythtv') and look at the
 >> /home/mythtv/.mythtv/config.xml file. You should find out what password was created in there.
 >>
 >>  It used to be the case that you would have to grant extra
 >> permissions on the database to get things to function. If you are
 >> using Debian or Unbuntu flavours, that should no longer be necessary.
 >>
 >>  --
 >>
 >>  Mike Perkins
 >>
 >>
>  
>  If you don't have any other mysql databases you could purge that too
>  and reinstall or simpler dump the mythconverg database. You possibly
>  now still have the database from your first install together with your
>  second myth install.
>  
>  Tot mails,
>    Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com
>  
Please put your replies at the bottom!

According to Mike a randomised password is automatically generated,
but you say it asks you for one.
I would suggest that you give a password when asked and that you both
in ~/.mythtv/config.xml and in mysql check if it is actually that
password BEFORE running mythtv-setup or mythbackend. If you start
mythbackend the default way, it IS run under the user mythtv.
Mike named /home/mythtv/.mythtv/config.xml assuming you run as user
mythtv. If you run as another user make sure that .mythtv/config.xml
is present in that home directory and contains the right information.
If you run both back and frontend on the same machine and do not plan
to run a frontend on another machine you can use localhost as hostname
else use the ip-adress or, if you have a stable dns, the hostname.

Tot mails,
  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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