[mythtv-users] Problem with new frontend

[John Drescher]

> I just installed a spare PC I put together as a new frontend and I'm having
> some trouble.  I installed Mythbuntu 8.10 (x64) on it, and when the package
> manager ran, I had it install all of the latest packages.  Not sure what
> they all were, but thought I'd mention it.  However, now I've noticed that
> the frontend process never starts automatically.  If I try to run it
> manually, I see on the terminal window that it trys to connect to the
> database a few times (and I know that works), then I see the following
> errors:
>
> No theme dir: /home/hdevine/.mythtv/themes/Mythbuntu-8.04
> Switching to square mode (Mythbuntu-8.04)
> Using the QT painter
> mythtv: could not connect to socket
> mythtv: No such file or directory

Looks like it thinks the local machine is the master backend.

What is in your /etc/mythtv/mysql.txt ?

John