<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Harry%20Devine <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-size:12pt;font-family:Arial"><br><br><hr><b>From: </b>"Nick Rout" <<a href="mailto:nick.rout@gmail.com" target="_blank">nick.rout@gmail.com</a>><br><b>To: </b>"Discussion about MythTV" <<a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org" target="_blank">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a>><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"><div><div class="h5">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>
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<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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</font></span></pre></blockquote></div><span><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></div></div></blockquote><br></div></div>Sorry about the top post. I responded from my phone and wasn't paying attention. Anyway, I did like you said: cleared out the files that you mentioned, ran dpkg-reconfigure mythtv-common, chose the user name and password, and I get the same problem: I run mythtv-setup and it says it can't connect to the mysql database. I make sure that my host, port, user name, and password are all correct, then click Next twice. I get the first screen back again saying it can't connect to the database.<br>
<br>Any other thoughts?<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br><br>Check what interface mysql is running on. sudo netstat -tanp|grep 3306<br><br>If it is listening on 127.0.0.1 then sudo dpkg-reconfigure mythtv-database and answer "yes" to whether other computers will connect. Then make sure all the rest of your setup is using the lan ip address (probably 192.168.x.x) of the backend, not 127.0.0.1.<br>
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