<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><br><br><hr id="zwchr"><b>From: </b>"Nick Rout" <nick.rout@gmail.com><br><b>To: </b>"Discussion about MythTV" <mythtv-users@mythtv.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Monday, November 19, 2012 4:48:35 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [mythtv-users] Setting up a new backend from scratch<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Harry Devine <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lifter89@comcast.net" target="_blank">lifter89@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><div style="font-family:'Verdana';font-size:8pt;font-weight:400;font-style:normal">Nope, same problem. Just keeps on looping back to the first screen.<br>
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Harry<br><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br><br>Please don't top post<br><br>Clear out (or check) all the config.xml and mysql.txt files in /etc/mythtv, ~user/.mythtv and ~mythtv/.mythtv<br><br>When you set up the backend on your former frontend only machine a new random password will have been generated by the package mythtv-common. If you didn't note this password, you can reset it by running sudo dpkg-reconfigure mythtv-common and either chooing your own or letting it create another random one.<br>
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Mark Greenwood <<a href="mailto:fatgerman@gmail.com" target="_blank">fatgerman@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">On Monday 19 Nov 2012 21:06:43 Harry%20Devine wrote:<br></p>
<p style="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:40px;margin-right:40px;text-indent:0px"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Arial'">I have a backend on the latest 0.25-fixes that went "belly up" on me the other day (it boots to a BusyBox prompt, and I suspect the hard disk failed). My main PC in my house is running Ubuntu, so I figured I'd configure MythTV on it since my tuners are 1 HDHR and 1 HDHR Prime. I have no problem starting over from scratch with a fresh MythTV installation, I just don't want to reinstall from a Mythbuntu CD.<br>
<br>My main PC used to have act as a frontend, but now I'd like have a combined BE/FE combo. I tried using the mythbuntu control center to configure the backend role, but whenever I run mythtv-setup, it tells me that it can't connect to the mysql server, even though its running. I get prompted for my country and language, then it says that it can'
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connect to my mysql database on my IP. So, what I want to know is the following:<br><br>1) How do I remove the previous FE stuff?<br></span><br>You probably just need to delete ~/.mythtv/config.xml, otherwise it'll still be looking for your old backend. That probably answers question 2 as well.</p>
<p style="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:40px;margin-right:40px;text-indent:0px"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Arial'">2) How do I configure mysql properly so the mythtv-setup will connect to it.<br>
3) Are there any other "gotchas" that I haven't covered in this approach?<br><br>Thanks for any advice!<br>Harry<br><br></span></p>
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