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    <p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Hi Stephen!</p>
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    <pre class="western">If you have not changed the bind-address setting in the <i>/etc/mysql/</i>*
config files, you will get it only binding localhost (127.0.0.1).  But
that will not stop it from working.  
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                      style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">Assuming these
                      (maybe I'm looking at the wrong files!):</font></font></p>
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                      style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">barry@Backend-3:/etc/systemd/system$
                      find / -iname config.xml 2>/dev/null</font></font></p>
                <p><font face="Liberation Mono, monospace"><font
                      style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">/etc/mythtv/config.xml</font></font></p>
                <p><font face="Liberation Mono, monospace"><font
                      style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">/home/barry/.mythtv/config.xml</font></font></p>
                <p><font face="Liberation Mono, monospace"><font
                      style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">/home/mythtv/.mythtv/config.xml</font></font></p>
                <p><font face="Liberation Mono, monospace"><font
                      style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">/usr/share/doc/mythtv-backend/contrib/config_files/config.xml</font></font></p>
                <p><font face="Liberation Mono, monospace"><font
                      style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">/usr/share/mythtv/config.xml</font></font></p>
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                <p><font face="Liberation Mono, monospace"><font
                      style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">So:</font></font></p>
                <p><font face="Liberation Mono, monospace"><font
                      style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">/etc/mythtv/config.xml
                      192.168.0.3 username = mythtv password (correct)</font></font></p>
                <p><font face="Liberation Mono, monospace"><font
                      style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">/home/barry/.mythtv/config.xml
                      (same as above)</font></font></p>
                <p><font face="Liberation Mono, monospace"><font
                      style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">/home/mythtv/.mythtv/config.xml
                      (same as above)</font></font></p>
                <p><font face="Liberation Mono, monospace"><font
                      style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">/usr/share/doc/mythtv-backend/contrib/config_files/config.xml</font></font></p>
                <p><font face="Liberation Mono, monospace"><font
                      style="font-size: 10pt" size="2"> hostname:
                      my-unique-identifer-goes-here</font></font></p>
                <p><font face="Liberation Mono, monospace"><font
                      style="font-size: 10pt" size="2"> 127.0.0.1 mythtv
                      mythtv</font></font></p>
                <p><font face="Liberation Mono, monospace"><font
                      style="font-size: 10pt" size="2"> (I've always
                      assumed this was a template rather than a config
                      file)</font></font></p>
                <p><font face="Liberation Mono, monospace"><font
                      style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">/usr/share/mythtv/config.xml
                      same as above (127.0.0.1, etc,)</font></font></p>
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    <pre class="western">
There are going to be error
messages in the log files.  Unfortunately, which log file depends on
how it is configured.  So you need to look at:

/var/log/mysql.log      BJM: no such file per ls
/var/log/mysql.err      BJM: no such file               No errors! Yea! <joke>

and all the files in:

<i>/var/log/mysql/</i>

One or more of them will have all the normal startup messages, and the
error(s) that are causing it to shut down again.  If it is configured
right, the most likely place for the error(s) to be logged is:

/var/log/mysql/error.log
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                <p>Error.Log was requested by Bill and posted at <font
                    style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"> </font><a
                    href="https://pastebin.com/bVwNPwB8"><font
                      style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span
                        style="font-weight: normal">https://pastebin.com/bVwNPwB8</span></font></a></p>
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    <pre class="western">Since you do not know all that much about MariaDB yet, it is best if
you just post the entire log for the last time you attempted to start
MariaDB.  The easiest way to do that is to try starting it:

sudo systemctl start mariadb

and note down the time you did that command.  Then find any messages
in the logs that happened at that time and for the next few seconds
(minutes?) afterwards.  If there is not too much, just post it in an
email here, otherwise post it on pastebin.com and post a URL to there.

My first guess is that it will have a message about "can't init" a
"tc.log" file.  So when you are looking at the log files, if you find
one named tc.log, try deleting that and starting MariaDB again.</pre>
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                <p><font style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span
                      style="font-weight: normal">OK, I’ll admit to
                      getting tired and fuzzy-brained. If something got
                      posted oddly I apologize and will try to answer
                      when more rested.</span></font></p>
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                <p><font style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span
                      style="font-weight: normal">I did use </span></font><font
                    style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><i><span
                        style="font-weight: normal">find </span></i></font><font
                    style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span
                      style="font-style: normal"><span
                        style="font-weight: normal">to look for tc.log –
                        starting at root. It didn’t locate.</span></span></font></p>
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                <p><font style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><span
                      style="font-style: normal"><span
                        style="font-weight: normal">Good night for now!
                        Do appreciate the assistance!</span></span></font></p>
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                        style="font-weight: normal">Barry</span></span></font></p>
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