[mythtv-users] Unable to connect to database.

[Mark Perkins]

On 13 September 2016 5:07:38 AM ACST, Forum <forum-da at padaba.de> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>after upgrading complete System, I've installed MythTV 0.27.0 on Linux 
>Mint. Bevore upgrading, I've had 0.26 installed.
>
>To restore Database, I've changed to path
>         cd /usr/share/mythtv
>and then I've tried to restore database:
>         ./mythconverg_restore.pl --directory 
>/var/lib/mythtv/db_backups  --verbose --drop_database --create_database
>
>But I've received an error:
>
>Unable to connect to database.
>            database: mythconverg
>            host: localhost
>            username: mythtv
>            password: xxxxxxxx
>
>I've tried to reconfigure:
>     sudo dpkg-reconfigure mythtv-common
>
>
>But this does also not work.
>
>Now, it seems that I'm facing the problem that I'm not able to connect 
>to database.
>
>Could you help me?
>
>Cheers
>
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First check that mysql is running.

Then login to mysql from command line using:
mysql -u**myth_user_id** -p**myth_password**

Assuming your frontend and backend are on the same, local, system. 

If cant login from command line will need to know what the error is. Possibly your mythtv user password is different on this install compared to last install.