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

[Bill Meek]

On 11/5/18 10:02 PM, Douglas Peale wrote:
> On 11/5/18 7:50 PM, Will Dormann wrote:
>> On 11/5/18 10:20 PM, Douglas Peale wrote:
>>> So, why would changing the hard drive change the ability to access the database?
>>
>> You could try using mysql to connect to your database, using the
>> credentials in ~/mythtv/config.xml
>>
>> If you have trouble doing this manually, then mythbackend would likely
>> fail in the same way.   If this is the case, it could be related to how
>> you cloned the data.
>>
>>
>> -WD
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> I can access the database fine:
> 
> $ mysql -u mythtv -p mythconverg
> Enter password:
> Reading table information for completion of table and column names
> You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A
> 
> Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
> Your MySQL connection id is 67
> Server version: 5.7.24-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 (Ubuntu)
> 
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> Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.
> 
> mysql>
> 
> 
> So that is probably not the problem.

In order to know, you need to do a systemctl cat myth<whichever one you decided to keep active>
That will tell us if, for example, MYTHCONFDIR is set.



-- 
Bill