[mythtv-users] Frontends can't connect after 0.29 upgrade.

[Stephen Worthington]

On Mon, 10 Sep 2018 15:22:10 +1000, you wrote:

>I upgraded my backend and frontend to 0,29 today. But now I can't get the
>frontends to connect. The backend has a frontend running on it and that
>can't connect. Neither can the remote frontend.
>
>When the frontend starts there's now a MythTV Startup Status screen which
>says "Waiting for Database to start". If I click the Search button I get a
>screen showing MythTV AV Media Server 29.2... and a message saying "Cannot
>login to database".
>
>I know the database is running as I've logged into it from the command
>line. I've also checked that all my config.xml files have the right
>password for the mythv user.
>
>The combined backend/frontend is running on Ubuntu 16.04. The remote
>frontend is running on Ubuntu 18.04. I'm assuming that once I can get the
>frrontend on the backend/frontend combo to connect this will solve the
>issue for the remote frontend as well.
>
>Can anybody advise why the database connection won't work?

Check what IP address MySQL or MariaDB is binding to:

sudo netstat -lnp | grep mysql

and then check the config.xml file that mythfrontend is using to see
what IP address it is connecting to:

cat ~/config.xml

and see if it would connect to the mysql bind address.