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On 31 October 2018 1:43:49 pm James Abernathy <jfabernathy@gmail.com> wrote:</p>
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I’m now having problems with mythtv-setup not connecting to the database. I’m following the instructions I documented in the following blog:
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<div class="">The first time I did this, no problems. I complete started over again to verify things. Since I link /etc/mythtv/config.xml to $HOME/.mythtv/config.xml before I run mythtv-setup, I never had to look at the database password.</div>
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<div class="">I ran mythtv-setup after setting up XMLTV json per the wiki as I’ve done before and documented. I had no problems connecting then, but after I finished, I ran mythfilldatabase and it also bombed due to not connecting with the database. I tried
mythtv-setup again and this time it couldn’t connect.</div>
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<div class="">It’s like I follow the same instructions, but it randomly fails.</div>
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<div class="">when I run mythfilldatabase now I see this:</div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">2018-10-30 22:57:55.639274 I Start up testing connections. DB 192.168.0.251, BE , attempt 0, status dbAwake</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">2018-10-30 22:57:56.641275 I Start up testing connections. DB 192.168.0.251, BE , attempt 1, status dbAwake</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">2018-10-30 22:58:01.650478 I Start up testing connections. DB 192.168.0.251, BE , attempt 2, status dbAwake</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">2018-10-30 22:58:06.659712 I Start up testing connections. DB 192.168.0.251, BE , attempt 3, status dbAwake</span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">2018-10-30 22:58:11.668891 I Start up testing connections. DB 192.168.0.251, BE , attempt 4, status dbAwake</span></div>
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<div dir="auto">I can't speak for Xubuntu, but vanilla install of mysql / mariadb sometimes only bind to localhost as it is default more secure. Have you checked for bind-address? Or:</div>
<div dir="auto">netstat -peanut | grep 3306</div>
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