[mythtv-users] Recent Gentoo mysql update broke backend startup

[Tom Dexter]

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 4:40 AM, Robin Gilks <g8ecj at gilks.org> wrote:
> This is a weird one - not restarted the machine for a couple of months but
> tonight having done so I find that the backend won't start from the init
> script. It runs fine off the command line as root user but if I su to the
> mythtv user it asks if I want to configure the database connection.
>
> The error is that it can't connect to the mysql server. Nothing has
> changed in the startup script so it must be something with the way the
> mysql server does stuff now having moved from 5.0.90 to 5.1.50
>
> Anyone any ideas?
>
>
> --
> Robin Gilks
>

If you didn't run mysql_upgrade there may be an issue with the grant
permissions etc from not properly updating the mysql database.

Tom