[mythtv-users] Missing database tables in 0.15
Andy Barber
ajbarber at freeshell.org
Tue Jun 8 22:12:42 EDT 2004
Chris Strom wrote:
>On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 01:58:39PM -0400, Andy Barber wrote:
>
>
>>In mythsetup, I was able to sucessfully establish the connection to
>>zap2it to get my cable setup from them. However, when I try to run
>>mythfilldatabase, I get tons of mysql errors. They are all related to
>>trying to insert into missing tables such as dd_channel,
>>dd_production_crew, etc. How is the database supposed to be upgraded to
>>have these new tables? Where might I find a description of all these
>>dd_ tables so that I might create them manually?
>>
>>
>
>Those are temporary tables that are only created as needed. It's easier
>to set the permissions correctly on the mythconverg DB:
>
>http://mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-6.html#ss6.4
>
>On my debian backend, I also had to run the mysql_fix_privilege_tables
>script, which is included in the mysql package.
>
>
>
Thanks for the info. Turns out I was trying to run mythfilldatabase as
root instead of mythtv. I guess there could be a better error message
there, but things appear to be working now.
Andy
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