[mythtv-users] mythsetup error on new gentoo install

[Robert Denier]

Well other than the obvious..

Try rebooting to insure everything is running on the new versions after 
all that.  I rather doubt its necessary, but it couldn't hurt.  Of 
course just getting out of X and back in is likely all thats needed, if 
even that.

You might also try a
/etc/init.d/mysql restart
just to be sure.  Also check out the logs afterward to see if anythings 
wierd there.  The directions on the myth page worked for me.  (You might 
have to restart the system logger or do some other way to flush the logs 
to disk to read them.)

Is it something to do with the user your running it as perhaps?   Try root.

Did you create the initial database?  I believe there are two commands.  
One to setup the mysql database and one thats myth specific... 

Is that -kde flag causing you problems? It seems unlikely, but stranger 
things have happened.

Are the access permisions for mysql correct?  I didn't think they had to 
be set to get it going though.. 

This might be useful.

http://mion.elka.pw.edu.pl/~mjankows/qtmyadmin/faq.html

Finally if all else fails and you have 5 GB or so available to play 
with, I'd suggest entering a chroot environment and building a clean 
gentoo build in the background.  Something like untar a stage3 tarball, 
then set use flags and the rest, mount portage, nice emerge -u world && 
nice emerge kde mythtv.  Once configured and booted  you can see if that 
works.  Of course this is a bit of an extreme solution, so it would be 
one of the last things tried due to the time required to do a full 
recompile.  Distcc might be helpful there.


Travis Osterman wrote:

>I'm installing mythtv on my new gentoo install and have gotten to the
>point of running mythsetup and get the following error.
>
>$ mythsetup 
>QSqlDatabase: QMYSQL3 driver not loaded
>QSqlDatabase: available drivers: 
>QSqlDatabase: QMYSQL3 driver not loaded
>QSqlDatabase: available drivers: 
>Unable to connect to database!
>No error type from QSqlError?  Strange...
>Unable to open database:
>Driver error was:
>Driver not loaded
>Database error was:
>Driver not loaded
>
>I googled and searched the list and found solutions for fedora and the
>gentoo-related mainly said to check the USE variable and recompile qt.
> Which I've done.
>
># /etc/init.d/mythbackend status
> * status:  started
># /etc/init.d/mysql status
> * status:  started
># cat /etc/make.conf | grep USE
>USE="aac aalib alsa apache2 bootsplash divx4linux doc dv dvd dvdread
>flac -gnome i8x0 joystick -kde -lcd lirc -mailwrapper mysql mythtv
>-nvidia real samba tiff transcode v4l v4ls X xinerama xvid"
>
>I unmerged and remerged qt with no change and am a bit frustrated as
>to how I need to proceed.  I thank you for any assistance.
>
>-- Travis Osterman
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