<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>On 6-Oct-06, at 11:58 AM, Peter Crighton wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Is the hostname 'mythtv' registered in your /etc/hosts file, or on a</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">dns server somewhere? I'd try localhost instead.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Tried that - no different, although "mysql mythconverg -h localhost -u</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">mythtv -pmythtv" successfully connects to the database.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>When you added mythtv to /etc/hosts was it mapping to 127.0.0.1 or the external IP? It's possible that mysql is only listening on the 127 interface. You can verify this in /etc/mysql/my.cnf.</DIV><BR><DIV>-George</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></BODY></HTML>