[mythtv-users] Unknown socket

[Michael T. Dean]

On 12/05/2011 03:32 PM, Craig Treleaven wrote:
> Arghh!
>
> I've had to rebuild my myth box (Mac mini, OS X 10.6.8) and I'm
> upgrading to 0.24.  I had just about everything running this morning
> (sense the foreshadowing?) but then got the bright idea that I ought
> to tweak MySQL.  It appears strictly on defaults as there was no
> my.cnf file in /etc.
>
> I took a sample my-large.cnf and dropped it in as /etc/my.cnf.  By
> mistake, I enabled "skip-networking".  Restarted the system and now I
> notice that the log says MBE was running as a slave backend.  (There
> is no other backend on my network.)  MythCommflag tried to start up
> and complained "a file should be local, but it can not be found".
> Then "MythSocket(1136b0:11): Unable to lookup:".
>
> Of course, I commented out the skip-networking line and restarted
> everything.  But MBE keeps starting up as a slave and complaining
> about errors related to MythSocket.  I've run MythTV-Setup.app but
> everything there seems normal.
>
> Help!  What have I done?!?

You've likely broken (one or more of) your config.xml or mysql.txt files.

Mike