[mythtv-users] 'mythtv could not connect to the database' insanity

Raymond Wagner raymond at wagnerrp.com
Wed Jun 25 17:00:24 UTC 2014


On 6/25/2014 11:47 AM, Douglas Peale wrote:
> On 06/25/2014 08:05 AM, Anthony Griffiths wrote:
>> mysqld is running, and I'm trying to run mythtv-setup on the 
>> localhost machine, there's no remote machine involved.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com 
>> <mailto:raymond at wagnerrp.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     On 6/25/2014 10:35 AM, Anthony Griffiths wrote:
>>
>>         I'm running fedora 20 64 bit and I've installed mythtv twice,
>>         once using yum and the second using git and compiling, both
>>         times I get stuck in an insane loop of 'mythtv could not
>>         connect to the database'. And trawling google I see no
>>         straightforward solution to this which is nuts. How do I get
>>         past this stuck point?
>>         I've tried creating a mysql databae called mythconverg with
>>         user tony, and a password but I still get back to this loop.
>>         I've disabled the firewall but still no joy. This is really
>>         frustrating so thanks for any help.
>>
>>
>>     Check your process list to ensure the database server is actually
>>     running.  If you've told MythTV to access the database from a
>>     network accessible address, make sure your database server is
>>     actually configured to listen on the network, and not just loopback. 
>>
> Having just gone through that issue, I'll point you at this thread: 
> https://forum.mythtv.org/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=151
>
> Basically, MythTV saves the database password in multiple places. The 
> current install tool does not do a good job of making them all agree. 
> You need to find out what the actual password is and make sure that 
> the backend, the frontend, the backendsetup tool, and mythweb all have 
> that same password.

MythTV only stores the password in one of two places.  It stores it in 
$MYTHCONFDIR/config.xml, if MYTHCONFDIR is defined, falling back to 
$HOME/.mythtv/config.xml otherwise.
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