[mythtv] Mac OS X can't connect to remote database

Matt Zimmerman mdz at debian.org
Tue Jun 1 21:16:23 EDT 2004


On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 09:37:54AM +1000, Nigel Pearson wrote:

> Database error was:
> Can't connect to MySQL server on '143.238.2.191' (61)
> 
> couldn't open db
> %
> 
> 	What can I do to further debug this?
> 
> P.S. I have used this backend with x86 Linux frontends before,
>      so all the usual gotchas are probably excempt.

Database privileges would be my first guess.  This certainly doesn't seem
like a MythTV problem; try connecting with the MySQL command line client
(mysql -h 143.238.2.191 -u <user> -p <database name>) and when you get that
working, MythTV is likely to work as well.

-- 
 - mdz


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