[mythtv-users] cannot connect to database

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Jul 15, 2009, at 8:55 AM, staticsupply wrote:

> So I am very new to this program, but have spent the last few weeks  
> spinning my wheels searching around on the internet trying to find  
> out why I keep getting the same error and have come up dry.
>
> I have done a fresh install of ubuntu feisty and installed mythtv  
> going through all the setups like I have seen in instructions  
> online.  However, now when I go to run the front end all I get is  
> the can not connect to database message followed by the database  
> connection setup menus.  I am at a loss.  I have tried both the ip  
> of the actual machine as well as localhost and nothing seems to work.
>
> I am sure this is just a newbie issue and is something simple I am  
> overlooking.  Any help would be greatly appreciated!

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MythFrontend#Mythtv_frontend_on_a_remote_machine_can.27t_access_backend_running_on_a_second_machine

Those issues can also apply to a machine that runs both the frontend  
and backend. I suspect you're trying to access the database via actual  
IP address and MySQL is bound to 127.0.0.1 or something like that.

-Brad

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