[mythtv-users] Problem with the mythconverg database

[Kevin Kuphal]

Nathan Smith wrote:
> On Oct 22, 2006, at 6:12 PM, William Munson wrote:
>
>   
>> Nathan Smith wrote:
>>     
>>> On Oct 22, 2006, at 5:20 PM, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Nathan Smith wrote:
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> Hello everyone,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm using mythtv-0.19, I'm running into problems connecting to the
>>>>> database through another computer.
>>>>>
>>>>> On the computer which is running the mythtv backend, I can  
>>>>> connect to
>>>>> the database, and I can run mythbackend and mythfrontend. On my  
>>>>> other
>>>>> computer (which is a mac -- I built the mythtv-0.19 binary from
>>>>> source), I get the following error when I try and connect to the
>>>>> server:
>>>>>
>>>>> 2006-10-22 16:40:51.339 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at  
>>>>> host:
>>>>> 192.168.1.11
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> Is 1.11 the frontend or the backend?  Is it quite a common  
>>>> mistake to
>>>> connect a remote frontend to a mysql instance running locally
>>>> instead of
>>>> the mysql running on the backend.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> 1.11 is the backend -- 1.50 is the frontend, so afaik I'm doing
>>> things correctly.
>>>
>>> Nate
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> Are you sure that you built the frontend with mysql support? The  
>> message
>> you indicate shows a successful connection to the database.
>>     
>
> This could be a stupid response, but I don't see any options in  
> configure to enable/disable mysql support for mythtv?
> Or are you asking if I built qt with mysql support? I did (I ran ./ 
> configure -qt-sql-mysql -thread)
>   
Is anything revealed if you run the frontend with "mythfrontend -v 
database" to show more of what is happening?

Kevin