[mythtv-users] connect to database

[Loren H. Burlingame]

On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 05:58:00 -0800, Don <dlw3 at tds.net> wrote:
> [don at localhost don]$ mythtv
> 2005-03-21 05:48:45.074 Switching to square mode ()
> 2005-03-21 05:48:45.147 Unable to connect to database!
> 2005-03-21 05:48:45.147 Driver error was [1/2005]:
> QMYSQL3: Unable to connect
> Database error was:
> Unknown MySQL server host 'don at localhost' (1)
> 
> How do I find out who the server host is?
> 
> dlw

localhost should be resolvable to the loopback address of 127.0.0.1

check your /etc/hosts file to make sure you have something similar to
the following:

127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain



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