<blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">MythTV-Database reconfigure required<br><br>The mythtv-database package was upgraded or installed, but was unable to contact a MySQL server.<br>
If you were in the process of dist-upgrading, this is normal as mysql-server is stopped for a portion of the upgrade.<br>If this is a fresh package installation, verify that mysql-server is installed and running. Once you have verified the server is running, you can reconfigure the package by running 'sudo dpkg-reconfigure mythtv-database'.<br>
If your root password or location of the MySQL server are non standard you can also update them via 'sudo dpkg-reconfigure mythtv-database'.<br></blockquote><br><br>It was a fresh package installation, I verified that it is installed and running, and when I tried to reconfigure I got this back...<br>
<br><br><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote"> * Starting MySQL database server mysqld [ OK ] <br>
* Checking for corrupt, not cleanly closed and upgrade needing tables.<br>Failed to connect to database: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES) at -e line 5, <> line 1.<br>Failed to create database (incorrect admin username/password?)<br>
It's also possible that mysql-server wasn't running. After install<br>is completed, you will need to make sure mysql-server is running<br>and that you supplied correct information. Try:<br>sudo dpkg-reconfigure mythtv-database</blockquote>