[mythtv-users] MySql Database Setup Issues

Matt Rude mythtv at mattrude.com
Sun May 13 18:58:22 UTC 2007


Catbert--Evil Human Resources Director wrote:
> I was running the MySql setup as described on wilsonet.com
> <http://wilsonet.com>  and I get this error:
>
> [root at localhost mythtv]# /sbin/service mysqld start
> Initializing MySQL database:  Neither host ' localhost.localdomain'
> nor 'localhost' could be looked up with
> /usr/bin/resolveip
> Please configure the 'hostname' command to return a correct hostname.
> If you want to solve this at a later stage, restart this script with
> the --force option
>
> what does this mean and how do I correct this?
>
> I'm running Fedora 6 with kernel 2.6.20-2948 on a P3
>
> -- 
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>
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>                                               --Hober Mallow
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Try adding

127.0.0.1         localhost.localdomain

to your /etc/hosts file
-Matt

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