[clug] Re: Myth TV Questions

[Michael Cohen]

Ian,
  I find its just easier (if a little more lengthy) to just compile the svn or
  release sources. Its pretty straight forward to compile, and you get the
  advantage of being able to do svn update periodically to fix bugs issues. A
  typical myth install is fairly robust nowadays and I had mine running for
  months without any problems (with the oztv program source).

  You normally need to run mythtvsetup to build your database so that may be your
  problem.

  Michael.

On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 09:44:29PM +1100, Ian Bardsley wrote:
> Thanks to all who responded to my request for help.  Having spent more 
> time on the issue this evening, I am now of the opinion that the Ubuntu 
> Mythtv package is faulty and will not  establish  a database during the 
> install process so until I can find a solution it's back to Windows for 
> recording those TV  progs that I may want to record.
> 
> Thanks again
> 
> Ian Bardsley
> 
> ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
> 
> /On 14th Nov
> 
> Good Evening
> 
> I took advantage of an idle evening yesterday to explore the possibility 
> of setting up MythTV.  A fair bit of Googling and reading leads me to 
> the conclusion that this may be something of a challenge.
> 
> I decided to follow the steps of a MythTV How To just to see if some of 
> the negative comments found on the net were valid and lo and behold they 
> could well be.
> 
> Having loaded mysql-server, mythtv-frontend, mythtv-backend and mythtv 
> database as outlined in the How To, was able to view a mythtv page after 
> selecting a language that told me that myth couldn't connect to the 
> database followed by:
> 
> Hostname:  localhost
> Database:  mythconverge
> User: mythtv
> Password: mythtv
> Database type: MySQL
> 
> Bu*#@! I thought. Perhaps the software install was flawed so I remove 
> the installed packages and instead of using Synaptic (yes I'm currently 
> playing with Ubuntu 6.1).  I tried apt-get install mythtv and watched 
> carefully the progress.  The following is a dump of that process:
> 
> ian at desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install mythtv
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree      Reading state information... Done
> The following extra packages will be installed:
> libmyth-0.20 libqt3-mt-mysql mythtv-backend mythtv-common mythtv-database
> mythtv-frontend
> Suggested packages:
> mythweb mythmusic mythweather mythgallery mythdvd mythvideo mythgame
> Recommended packages:
> mythtv-doc mythtv-themes xmltv-util
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> libmyth-0.20 libqt3-mt-mysql mythtv mythtv-backend mythtv-common
> mythtv-database mythtv-frontend
> 0 upgraded, 7 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B/14.6MB of archives.
> After unpacking 37.5MB of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
> Preconfiguring packages ...
> Selecting previously deselected package libqt3-mt-mysql.
> (Reading database ... 99077 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking libqt3-mt-mysql (from 
> .../libqt3-mt-mysql_3%3a3.3.6-3ubuntu3_i386.deb) ...
> Selecting previously deselected package libmyth-0.20.
> Unpacking libmyth-0.20 (from .../libmyth-0.20_0.20-0.2ubuntu2_i386.deb) ...
> Selecting previously deselected package mythtv-common.
> Unpacking mythtv-common (from .../mythtv-common_0.20-0.2ubuntu2_all.deb) 
> ...
> Selecting previously deselected package mythtv-database.
> Unpacking mythtv-database (from 
> .../mythtv-database_0.20-0.2ubuntu2_all.deb) ...
> Selecting previously deselected package mythtv-frontend.
> Unpacking mythtv-frontend (from 
> .../mythtv-frontend_0.20-0.2ubuntu2_i386.deb) ...
> Selecting previously deselected package mythtv-backend.
> Unpacking mythtv-backend (from 
> .../mythtv-backend_0.20-0.2ubuntu2_i386.deb) ...
> Selecting previously deselected package mythtv.
> Unpacking mythtv (from .../mythtv_0.20-0.2ubuntu2_all.deb) ...
> Setting up libqt3-mt-mysql (3.3.6-3ubuntu3) ...
> Setting up libmyth-0.20 (0.20-0.2ubuntu2) ...
> 
> Setting up mythtv-common (0.20-0.2ubuntu2) ...
> 
> /Setting up mythtv-database (0.20-0.2ubuntu2) ...
> Failed to connect to database: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' 
> (using password: YES) at -e line 5, <> line 1.
> Failed to create database (incorrect admin username/password?)
> If you supplied incorrect information, try:
> dpkg-reconfigure --force mythtv-database
> dpkg: error processing mythtv-database (--configure):
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Setting up mythtv-frontend (0.20-0.2ubuntu2) ...
> 
> Setting up mythtv-backend (0.20-0.2ubuntu2) ...
> udev active, devices will be created in / /dev//.static/dev/
> Starting MythTV server: mythbackendSession management error: 
> Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols 
> specified are supported and host-based authentication failed
> .
> 
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mythtv:
> mythtv depends on mythtv-database (= 0.20-0.2ubuntu2); however:
> Package mythtv-database is not configured yet.
> dpkg: error processing mythtv (--configure):
> dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> mythtv-database
> mythtv
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> ian at desktop:~$ /
> 
> Now this is beyond me.  I have no idea what this means....could the 
> package be faulty??
> 
> I am aware that a number of cluggers are using Mythtv,  Can anyone point 
> me to a solution or is anyone aware of a well structured How To on 
> getting this programme up and running?
> 
> TIA
> 
> Ian Bardsley
> /
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