[mythtv-users] About updating from Ubuntu 24.04 to 26.04

[Will Dormann]

On 5/5/26 10:10 PM, Stephen Worthington wrote:
> On Tue, 5 May 2026 20:14:52 -0400, you wrote:
> 
>> wd at jerky:~$ sudo mysql
>> [sudo: authenticate] Password:
>> ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using
>> password: NO)
> 
> Ouch!  This really needs fixing.


Does it, though?  It's been this way for years, and it seems fine to me.

Surely when I transitioned from another distro to Ubuntu years ago, I 
ran the mythconverg_restore.pl script to restore from the database 
backup.  Is is possible that this is responsible for root not having 
access to the database on my current system?

If it truly does need fixing (why?), then how might I go about doing 
that?  I know you mentioned "If you screw up the normal
user/password access to MySQL databases", but this box is an appliance 
that runs in my basement that I do security updates on, and pretty much 
nothing else.  And I can say that such a thing has never happened, and 
I'm not sure how how it could happen.



Thanks
-WD