<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 8:30 PM, Tony Sauri <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hoiho.nz@gmail.com">hoiho.nz@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:01, Nick Rout wrote:<br>
> I am trying to help someone having authentication problems with<br>
> mythfrontend on ubuntu, so as an experiment to try and emulate his<br>
> errors I renamed /etc/mythtv/mysql.txt, /etc/mythtv/config.xml,<br>
> ~nick/.mythtv/config.xml and ~nick/.mythtv/mysql.txt.<br>
><br>
> However when I start either mythfrontend or mythtv-setup (both of<br>
> which are wrapper scripts on mythbuntu) the corresponding programs<br>
> start without any hitch.<br>
><br>
> Where/how are they getting the credentials for the database? I<br>
> understood that these came from the above files, which I renamed.<br>
><br>
> Confused of Quaketown.<br>
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I also have a set of files in ~/mythtv/.mythtv (links actually to the /etc<br>
files)<br>
<br><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>When none of the files exist, a myth app will (where possible) detect the backend via uPnP and connect to the XML service running there to pull in the correct credentials, which it then uses to create a valid config.xml. This is likely what is happening if you have removed all config.xml and mysql.txt instances.</div>
</div><br><div>Robert</div>