[mythtv-users] mythfrontend can't connect to backend/database
Michael T. Dean
mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Sun Apr 20 17:57:44 UTC 2008
On 04/20/2008 01:03 PM, starcycle wrote:
> This is the error I'm getting, but I can't figure out what's wrong.
> mythtv user can log in to mysql on the server. I don't understand why
> it says it can't connect to MySQL server on localhost since the IP of
> the mysql server is entered in the field.
>
> Also, I noticed the ~/.mythtv directory and files were created with
> root:root ownership, which seems kind of weird since it's the user's
> directory. The mysql.txt file listed 192.168.0.1 as the database
> location, I changed that to the correct IP, but it still didn't work.
> Can anyone help sort this out?
Fix ~/.mythtv/config.xml . Best bet is to rm
~/.mythtv/{mysql.txt,config.xml} , then reconfigure.
Mike
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