I know this isn't strictly a MythTV issue but I thought I'd ask her as someone's likely to know.<br><br>So I spent most of my Bank Holiday re-building my MythTV box to add a hard drive. In order to make best use of that I had to upgrade my distro - so I went from SuSE
9.3 to FC6. (the former AFAICT doesn't have support for logical volumes). All of which is a preamble to explain how I came to do a back up from a version of MySQL I built from source to one installed from FC6 rpms. My "backup" consisted of a dump of the database and a copy of /etc/my.cnf.
<br><br>Now the rebuild itself was slow but tediously easy, but I hit a snag with MySQL. I could access mythconverg using mysql client and verify that my data was there but mythbackend et al refused to connect. It complained that it couldn't find /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock - which was fair enough because it was set in
my.cnf to use /tmp/mysql.sock. I assumed this was some setting somewhere but I couldn't find it. I eventually found out that MythTV used the QT MySQL plugin library and that that was using a default value (/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock). If I hadn't overwritten the
my.cnf installed as part of the MySQL rpm with the one I'd backed up (which truth be told only had one change from the default anyway) I wouldn't have had this problem since, naturally, everything would have been consistent.
<br><br>Eventually I gave up and changed /etc/my.cnf to use /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock and everything then worked.<br><br>Bear in mind, I don't have access to the internet at home at the moment, so I was relying on what documentation I'd thought to grab whilst at work and just investigating the system (using ldd to trace which libraries were used etc). Having said that I did google this morning but couldn't find out where, if anywhere, this setting can be changed for the QT plugin.
<br><br>Is this setting really not configurable or have I simply not found it?<br><br>Thanks<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Paul Mason