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

[Bill Meek]

On 11/7/18 1:06 PM, Jonatan Lindblad wrote:
> Den 2018-11-07 kl. 18:32, skrev Douglas Peale:
> 
>>>> Nov  6 20:41:57 Compromise mythbackend: mythbackend[7003]: N thread_unknown mythdirs.cpp:197 (InitializeMythDirs) Using
>>>> configuration directory = /home/mythtv/.mythtv
> 
> <snip>
> 
>> The username and password are correct in /user/home/mythtv/.mythtv/config.xml
> 
> Do you really mean /user/home/mythtv/.mythtv/config.xml, with /user in the beginning? If you do, then you might have to set the environment variable MYTHCONFDIR to /user/home/mythtv/.mythtv.
> 
> Jonatan

Good idea, and it's easily done in:/etc/mythtv/additional.args by creating a like like this
and starting the backend again:

MYTHCONFDIR=/user/home/mythtv/.mythtv

It would also be nice to see a fresh backend log. The last one (I believe)
also suggested a problem accessing config.xml. The backend was using
default values:

/// Load sensible connection defaults.
void DatabaseParams::LoadDefaults(void)
{
     dbHostName    = "localhost";
     dbHostPing    = true;
     dbPort        = 3306;
     dbUserName    = "mythtv";
     dbPassword    = "mythtv"; <----------------
     dbName        = "mythconverg";
     dbType        = "QMYSQL";

Nov  6 20:41:57 Compromise mythbackend: mythbackend[7003]: E CoreContext mythdbparams.cpp:39 (IsValid) DBHostName is not set in
config.xml

-- 
Bill