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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 07/02/17 19:55, Phill Edwards wrote:<br>
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            <div class="gmail_quote">On 8 Feb 2017 02:55, "Mike
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                      07/02/17 15:35, Douglas Sargent wrote:<br>
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                <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">Have a look in
                  /var/log/mysql/error.log, If it has something like <br>
                   [ERROR] unknown variable 'table_cache=128'<br>
                  This is preventing mysql  from starting.<br>
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                  I suspect you have a file named mythtv-tweaks.cnf in
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                  Edit this file and comment out (just put # at start of
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                  table_cache = 128<br>
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        <div dir="auto">For future readers, why did that solve the
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    table_cache=128 was deprecated a long time ago around mysql version
    5.5, mythbuntu  16.04 (and  orher *buntu variants)  now has mysql
    version 5.7. It was replaced with table_open_cache - I have never
    tested with this, hence just commented out. <br>
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    Mike<br>
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