[mythtv-users] Debian install SQL problems
Matt Zimmerman
mdz at debian.org
Sat Oct 11 01:13:57 EDT 2003
On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 06:29:44PM -0700, Lorrin Nelson wrote:
> I modified mysql.txt to have a strictly alphabetic password, did a
> apt-get --purge remove mythtv-database
> apt-get install mythtv-database
>
> But I still get the same error:
By purging the package, you are undoing the changes that you made (it will
remove the configuration files). Of course, it should also be generating a
new random password, and so it should be unlikely to have the same problem
the second time.
> Setting up mythtv-database (0.11-1) ...
> Database 'mythconverg' on host 'localhost' already exists, skipping
> database initialization
> Failed to execute SQL: GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON mythconverg.* TO
> mythtv at localhost IDENTIFIED BY '\nYou have an error in your SQL syntax
> near ''' at line 1 at -e line 8, <> line 1.
> dpkg: error processing mythtv-database (--configure):
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 255
Instead, run dpkg-reconfigure --force -plow mythtv-database and enter a
password manually rather than letting it generate one.
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- mdz
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