[mythtv-users] gutsy install frontend gui does appear if not logged in as mythtv

[John Brown]

John Brown wrote:
> David Whyte wrote:
>> On Nov 12, 2007 10:07 PM, John Brown <info at johnbrown.com.au> wrote:
>>> My 3rd (and final?) problem I am having -- after just doing a fresh
>>> install of ubuntu gutsy on an AMD64 and installed mythtv frontend and
>>> backend -- is that if I log on as anything but mythtv the frontend gui
>>> does not appear after I run it. The system monitor shows it as
>>> 'sleeping' but the gui never appears, and I don't get any error messages.
>>>
>>> The same thing happens on a remote Feisty frontend
>>>
>>> Given the lack of error messages, I don't know where to start with this one.
>> Are you running the 'mythfrontend' application from a terminal to see
>> what the output is?
> 
> I wasn't, but now that have I can see that the problem is that when I 
> run mythfrontend in any user other than mythtv it 'hangs' at the point 
> it tries to access the database: (see the following output)
> 
> jbcp at ubuntu64:~$ /usr/bin/mythtv
> 2007-11-13 21:09:43.532 Using runtime prefix = /usr
> 2007-11-13 21:09:43.565 Gnome-Screensaver support enabled
> 2007-11-13 21:09:43.611 DPMS is active.
> 2007-11-13 21:09:43.797 New DB connection, total: 1
> 
> ... then nothing...
> 
> However, when I am logged in a user mythtv I get the following output:
> 
> 2007-11-13 21:13:09.617 Using runtime prefix = /usr
> 2007-11-13 21:13:09.662 Gnome-Screensaver support enabled
> 2007-11-13 21:13:09.662 DPMS is active.
> 2007-11-13 21:13:09.748 New DB connection, total: 1
> 2007-11-13 21:13:09.765 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: 
> 192.168.0.130
> 
> ... then it continues on and the frontend GUI appears and everything 
> works fine (the subject lines has this the other way around, which is 
> wrong, sorry)
> 
> Ideas?

I solved this problem.

It was caused by having multiple copies of mysql.txt in different 
locations, which contained different IP addresses.

The solution was to delete all copies except for one, which I put in 
/usr/share/mythtv/mysql.txt. Make sure it contains the correct IP 
address and password!

I found info on the web which said that if you also put on in your home 
folder it will over-ride the one above.

John



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