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On 02/17/2012 02:19 PM, Duncan Gillibrand wrote:
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<p class="MsoNormal">Can I apologise for being a N00B? I’ve
looked everywhere and can’t find out what my prob is.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I have successfully installed and can run
MythTV under XBMC and I love it.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The problem I have is that mysql doesn’t
start unless I manually enter the following in a terminal ….
What do I have to do to get it to “autostart”? I know it’s cos
mysqld.sock doesn’t exist although I keep creating and
re-creating it but after every reboot it’s gone.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sudo –s<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Mkdir /var/run/mysqld<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Touch /var/run/mysqld.mysqld.sock<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Chown Duncan /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Chown –R Duncan /var/run/mysqld/<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Mysqld<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And then in another terminal run
“mythbackend”<o:p></o:p></p>
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Hello Duncan,<br>
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Can you give us some information about what Linux distribution you
are using? Are you using the stock mysql, mythtv, etc packages for
the distro or are you compiling them yourself?<br>
<br>
Michael<br>
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