[mythtv-users] mythbackend not starting on gentoo

[Dirk grosse Osterhues]

Nick Rosier wrote:
> On 10/20/05, Dirk grosse Osterhues <tud-gut at gmx.de> wrote:
> 
>>Hej,
>>
>>I forgot to say that after upgrading mysql I had no longer a
>>/usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so.12 (/usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so.14 exists). I
>>created the symlink myself and received the errors I already reported.
>>
>>Now I removed the symlink again and get the following output from
>>mythbackend (also after a recompile of mythtv):
>>
>>
>>>QSqlDatabase: QMYSQL3 driver not loaded
>>>QSqlDatabase: available drivers:
>>>2005-10-20 12:15:28.424 New DB connection, total: 1
>>>2005-10-20 12:15:28.425 Unable to connect to database!
>>>2005-10-20 12:15:28.426 No error type from QSqlError?  Strange...
>>>2005-10-20 12:15:28.426 Failed to init MythContext, exiting.
>>
>>Any more ideas?
> 
> 
> remove that link you created and run revdep-rebuild. it will check all
> library dependencies and rebuild any builds that are missing some. you
> can run it with the option -p (pretend) to check what it's going to
> rebuild 1st.

Thanks for that idea. In fact the problem was with qt which libmysql
mythtv wanted to use for access to the database. Now it works.

Thanks for that,
Dirk