<div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jan 9, 2022, 10:03 James Abernathy <<a href="mailto:jfabernathy@gmail.com">jfabernathy@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">When I'm working on building a test mythtv BE/FE combo to test something, I have mythtv-setup fail due to it finding another backend like my production one. The only way I've found to recover from this is reformat the HD and start over with O/S install. I know that you could spend a year or so digging into what files need to be removed, but I can't find them all so in the interest of time, I just start over.</div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"></div><div dir="auto">/var/lib/mysql even for Maria DB is the canonical place for database files. If you wipe out that directory, and reinstall the database package from your distribution, it should perform the setup steps again (creating the database root user password etc) and you would save about 95% of the reinstallation steps.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>What I'd like is a way to tell mythtv-setup to not go looking for anything, just stay on localhost and make all assumptions as localhost. Does that exist??</div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"></div><div dir="auto">I would just unplug the network cable..</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
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