[mythtv-users] I broke my mythTV, help!

[Douglas Peale]

sudo systemctl enable mythtvbackend
Failed to enable unit: Unit file mythtvbackend.service does not exist.

Hmm, wrong name.

$ sudo systemctl status mythtv-backend
● mythtv-backend.service - MythTV Backend
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/mythtv-backend.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2018-11-05 08:53:32 PST; 10h ago
     Docs: https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Mythbackend
 Main PID: 2257 (code=exited, status=130)

Nov 05 08:53:32 Compromise systemd[1]: mythtv-backend.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.
Nov 05 08:53:32 Compromise systemd[1]: mythtv-backend.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 10.
Nov 05 08:53:32 Compromise systemd[1]: Stopped MythTV Backend.
Nov 05 08:53:32 Compromise systemd[1]: mythtv-backend.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Nov 05 08:53:32 Compromise systemd[1]: mythtv-backend.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Nov 05 08:53:32 Compromise systemd[1]: Failed to start MythTV Backend.

sudo systemctl start mythtv-backend
● mythtv-backend.service - MythTV Backend
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/mythtv-backend.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Mon 2018-11-05 19:16:21 PST; 5s ago
     Docs: https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Mythbackend
 Main PID: 30521 (mythbackend)
    Tasks: 8 (limit: 4915)
   CGroup: /system.slice/mythtv-backend.service
           └─30521 /usr/bin/mythbackend --quiet --syslog local7

Nov 05 19:16:22 Compromise mythbackend[30521]: mythbackend[30521]: I CoreContext mythcontext.cpp:607 (LoadDatabaseSettings)
Using localhost value of Compromise
Nov 05 19:16:22 Compromise mythbackend[30521]: mythbackend[30521]: I CoreContext mythcontext.cpp:852 (TestDBconnection) Start up
testing connections. DB localhost, BE , attempt 0, s
Nov 05 19:16:22 Compromise mythbackend[30521]: mythbackend[30521]: I LogForward loggingserver.cpp:302 (SyslogLogger) Added
syslogging
Nov 05 19:16:23 Compromise mythbackend[30521]: mythbackend[30521]: E CoreContext mythdbcon.cpp:242 (OpenDatabase) [DBManager0]
Unable to connect to database!
Nov 05 19:16:23 Compromise mythbackend[30521]: mythbackend[30521]: E CoreContext mythdbcon.cpp:243 (OpenDatabase) Driver error
was [1/1045]:
                                               QMYSQL: Unable to connect
                                               Database error was:
                                               Access denied for user 'mythtv'@'localhost' (using password: YES)
Nov 05 19:16:24 Compromise mythbackend[30521]: mythbackend[30521]: I CoreContext mythcontext.cpp:971 (TestDBconnection) Start up
failure. host localhost, status dbStartedFail
Nov 05 19:16:24 Compromise mythbackend[30521]: mythbackend[30521]: I CoreContext mythcontext.cpp:1127 (UPnPautoconf) UPNP Search
2 secs
Nov 05 19:16:24 Compromise mythbackend[30521]: mythbackend[30521]: I CoreContext mythcontext.cpp:1142 (UPnPautoconf) UPNP Search
1 secs
Nov 05 19:16:24 Compromise mythbackend[30521]: mythbackend[30521]: I CoreContext mythcontext.cpp:1142 (UPnPautoconf) UPNP Search
1 secs
Nov 05 19:16:26 Compromise mythbackend[30521]: mythbackend[30521]: I CoreContext mythcontext.cpp:1152 (UPnPautoconf) No UPnP
backends found

So, why would changing the hard drive change the ability to access the database?

On 11/5/18 9:43 AM, Bill Meek wrote:
> On 11/5/18 10:55 AM, Douglas Peale wrote:
>> sudo systemctl status mythbackend
>> ● mythbackend.service - MythTV backend service
>>     Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/mythbackend.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)
>
> The service is disabled at boot time. sudo systemctl enable mythtvbackend
>
> There's nothing wrong with that service name, however mythtv-backend
> is also common. Just be sure you don't have both. Try:
> systemctl status myth*.service
>
> Hopefully, when you start the backend from the command line, you're using
> sudo systemctl start mythtvbackend
>
> To see where logs are going, you need to look at the service:
> systemctl cat mythtvbackend
>


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