[mythtv-users] More beginner's questions

[Thomas Boehm]

E James wrote:
> Step 1
> I have just done a fresh install of Lubuntu 13.04 on my Asus EeePC
> X101CH netbook followed by MythTV frontend and backend from the
> repository. NB. I did not reformat the home partition, just the root
> "/" partition. There were a few questions along the way which I may
> have answered incorrectly. The first problem is the backend setup.
> First the country selection and then the database configuration which
> says "MythTV could not connect to the database. Please verify your
> database settings below." Currently the settings are
> ...
> I suspect any or all of hostname, user and password may be wrong. It's
> stuck in a closed loop. Any attempt to exit just restarts it.

In most cases the mysql permissions are wrong. What does

grep -R "bind-address" /etc/mysql/

say? If the FE on the netbook is the only one in your network, then
127.0.0.1 should be fine, otherwise set it to 0.0.0.0 and restart mysqld.

HTH
Thomas