[mythtv-users] 0.25 to 0.26 upgrade issue with MYSQL

Steve Greene sgreene59 at verizon.net
Sat Aug 3 18:39:59 UTC 2013


On Sat, 2013-08-03 at 14:00 -0400, Craig Treleaven wrote:
> At 1:33 PM -0400 8/3/13, Steve Greene wrote:
> >Hi everyone,
> >I finally decided to upgrade my existing 0.25 system. I installed Linux
> >Mint 15 and used the myth and mysql default packages. Since the upgrade
> >I can't connect to my database via my static IP address.  I've checked
> >my config.xml, it points to the IP address and has the correct database
> >name, username and password.  I can manually connect to the database
> >from the command line. I checked my.cnf and set bind-address to my
> >static IP. There is no "skip-networking" line. $/mythtv-setup still
> >fails on the database connection.  Is this a known issue with a known
> >fix?
> 
> Database permissions set to allow remote access?
> 
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MythTV-HOWTO#Modifying_access_to_the_MySQL_database_for_multiple_systems
> 
> Craig

Yep, set to my local IP subnet. It's behaving as if "skip-networking"
were set.  I can set myth to "localhost" as the hostname and it
connects. I'm about ready to restore my backup, if I can't figure this
out.



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