[mythtv-users] mythtv on centos 5

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Jun 11, 2007, at 8:15 AM, Jerry Geis wrote:

> Hi I am trying to get mythtv -0.20 running centos 5.
>
> I have KDE installed.
>
> I installed lame-3.97
> I installed qt-devel and qt-MySQL
> I installed mysql and mysql-server
> set mysqld to start on boot
>
> I have a mythtv user and a mysql user.
>
> I then went to run mythtv-setup and I get MANY errors.
> I am running as root when I type mythtv-setup.
>
> What did I miss, below are the first part of the errors.
>
> Jerry
>
> ------------------------
>  mythtv-setup
> 2007-06-11 11:14:41.687 Using runtime prefix = /usr/local
> 2007-06-11 11:14:41.697 DPMS is active.
> 2007-06-11 11:14:41.928 New DB connection, total: 1
> 2007-06-11 11:14:41.950 Unable to connect to database!
> 2007-06-11 11:14:41.950 Driver error was [1/1045]:
> QMYSQL3: Unable to connect
> Database error was:
> Access denied for user 'mythtv'@'localhost' (using password: YES)

Luckily you've hit one of the more useful error messages. Give access  
to mythtv at localhost in mysql and make sure the password is correct.  
You can search this list or the MySQL manual if you're unfamiliar  
with giving users permissions from specific hosts.

-Brad