[mythtv-users] frontend only doesnt work

[John Drescher]

On 11/4/06, Andrew Lyon <andrew.lyon at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On my gentoo laptop I have emerged mythtv 0.20 11647 (using a overlay
> from integralblue.com)  with frontendonly flag, I run the frontend
> with QT or OpenGL painter and I get no display at all, just a load of
> errors in the xterm:
>
> QMYSQL3: Unable to connect
> Database error was:
> Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
> '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)
>
>
It looks that you have not told the frontend where to find your database and
it is trying to connect to the local machine.

I believe you need to set this in /etc/mythtv/my.cnf  and possibly
~/.mythtv/mysql.txt

John
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