[mythtv-users] Cannot get the backend to run

[Brian Wood]

On Friday 22 May 2009 13:44:14 Mark Knecht wrote:
> Hi Greg
>
> On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Greg Woods <greg at gregandeva.net> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 12:27 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> >> What am I missing to get this backend to run?
> >
> > The mysql.txt file. If you do a gossamer-threads search on this, you
> > will probably find it.
> >
> > The problem is that your frontend cannot find the mysql.txt file, which
> > tells it the information it needs to connect and log in to the database.
>
> I'm not actually trying to run the frontend. Right now the frontend
> will NOT work because mythtvbackend itself isn't running.
>
> To me, the message seem to indicate that mythbackend tryies to start
> and then dies because it cannot access the mythconverg database at
> mythtv at macmini, which is what I see from the command line also.
>
> Unless you are suggesting that my user account on the server, where
> I'm trying to run mythtv-setup, either needs to have a mysql.txt file
> before I ever run mythtv-setup.

If your database is on a different machine make sure it is setup to accept 
remote connections over the network. I think the default is to refuse such 
connections.

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