[mythtv-users] connect to database

Don dlw3 at tds.net
Mon Mar 21 14:44:22 UTC 2005


Loren H. Burlingame wrote:

>On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 05:58:00 -0800, Don <dlw3 at tds.net> wrote:
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>>[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
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>localhost should be resolvable to the loopback address of 127.0.0.1
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>check your /etc/hosts file to make sure you have something similar to
>the following:
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>127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain
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Yes, that is exactly what is in /etc/hosts.


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