On 12/7/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">John</b> <<a href="mailto:nesredep@gmail.com">nesredep@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">
<div> My system is Mepis 6 (uses Ubuntu repositories), and I used the mysql-server-4.1 and the mythtv 18-point something, binaries.<br></div></blockquote></div><br>Wow! that is a pretty old version of MythTV. Older versions of MythTV use a different protocol when connecting to mysql databases than current ones. However, the error warnings usually mention that their is a protocol problem. That doesn't seem to be the case here, but still I'd check into the possibility that mySQL
4.1 and myth 18.* don't work together. <br><br>Are you running mythtv-setup as a non-root user? Are you running the mythbackend as root?