[mythtv] latest cvs mythtv can't connect to database

Paul Barrette paulbarrette at gmail.com
Thu Dec 30 22:06:47 UTC 2004


Hi,
not sure how to get around this one.  I installed a fresh cvs update
of mythtv etc and now when I run mythfrontend, I get the setup screen.

-AMD64, gentoo, fresh install of QT, fresh checkout of src tree

The startup error:
  2004-12-30 16:56:43.865 Unable to connect to database!
  2004-12-30 16:56:43.865 No error type from QSqlError?  Strange...
  couldn't open db
  lirc_init failed for mythtv, see preceding messages
  2004-12-30 16:56:44.733 Joystick disabled.
  2004-12-30 16:56:46.618 User canceled database configuration
  Unable to open database:
  Driver error was:
  Driver not loaded
  Database error was:
  Driver not loaded

So, clearly the driver is not being loaded.  There must be a new
driver, since this used to work.  Mysql is running happily, I removed
the old db and added a new one just to rule that out.  I can connect
to it from the command line.

tail /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log 
QSqlDatabase: available drivers: 
QSqlDatabase: QMYSQL3 driver not loaded
QSqlDatabase: available drivers: 
QSqlDatabase: QMYSQL3 driver not loaded
QSqlDatabase: available drivers: 
QSqlDatabase: QMYSQL3 driver not loaded
QSqlDatabase: available drivers: 
couldn't open db
Would you like to configure the database connection now? [yes]  
Couldn't open database


Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

thanks,
Pb
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