[mythtv-users] mysql error

Nick Morrott knowledgejunkie at gmail.com
Mon Jan 1 14:57:30 UTC 2007


On 01/01/07, Rich Goodwin <rich.goodwin at cox.net> wrote:
> I just pulled down the SVN version of Myth and built it on SuSe Linux
> Enterprise Desktop 10.  I made sure lame, qt-mysql and qt-devel were
> installed and that the environment variables were setup before
> compiling.
>
> When I   run nythtv-setup, it cannot connect to mysql.  The daemon is
> running.  The relevant error info I get is
> QSqlDatabase: QMYSQL3 driver not loaded
> QSqlDatabase: available drivers:

<snip>

> I am not able to manually go into mysql - access denied.  Clearly
> something is awry ....  Anyone have some mysql insight that would help
> here??

Can you log into MySQL as root? Make sure your MythTV user (and any
other you want to use with MySQL) have access privileges to the
mythconverg database. See the official documentation for more
detailing on setting this up.

Nick
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