[mythtv-users] Fwd: problem installing new Debian packages on Sid

[Ray Olszewski]

Sorry to followup on my own posting ... but I tracked down the answer in 
the mysqld docs, finally. Sorry to have troubled you.


>Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 13:16:07 -0800
>To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users at snowman.net>
>From: Ray Olszewski <ray at comarre.com>
>Subject: problem installing new Debian packages on Sid
>
>The package installer is failing to authenticate properly to the mysqld 
>server on localhost. I'm getting this message (using "dpkg-reconfigure 
>--force mythtv" after an initial, similar failure on the apt-get post-install):
>
>DBI connect('host=localhost;database=','mysql',...) failed: Access denied 
>for user: 'mysql at localhost' (Using password: YES) at -e line 5
>
>And mysqld is logging the failures with messages like:
>
>030226 12:50:48       5 Connect     Access denied for user: 
>'mysql at localhost' (Using password: YES)
>
>The message and log entry are identical (except for username) if I try 
>using root rather than mysql as the administrator name. If I use the mysql 
>client, I can connect to mysqld as root or as an ordinary user.
>
>I fear I am missing something obvious, but not being an experienced mysql 
>user (I installed it for the first time today, just to run MythTV), it 
>isn't obvious to me. The installer does ask me to identify the mysql 
>administrator account ... if it is not root (the default in the script) or 
>mysql (the user ID under which mysqld runs), then wnat is it?
>