MacPorts MythTV

Monty Lewis lewis.monty at gmail.com
Wed Sep 26 09:29:06 PDT 2012


..and Start_Stop does say that MySQL is running.

-- Monty


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Monty Lewis <lewis.monty at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: MacPorts MythTV
> Date: September 26, 2012 12:27:03 PM EDT
> To: "macports-users at lists.macosforge.org" <macports-users at lists.macosforge.org>
> 
> Hi Guys,
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> I had an installation of mythtv (not the MacPorts version) running previously. Could that be the problem?
> When I give this command:
> mysql5 -u root -p < /opt/local/share/mythtv/database/mc.sql
> 
> I get:
> ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/opt/local/var/run/mysql5/mysqld.sock' (2)
> 
> So I think it may be a MySQL problem, but I don't know what the solution would be.
> 
> Thanks! Monty
> 
> On Sep 26, 2012, at 12:01 PM, Craig Treleaven <ctreleaven at cogeco.ca> wrote:
> 
>> At 11:49 AM -0400 9/26/12, Jason wrote:
>>> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 11:43:27AM -0400, Monty Lewis wrote:
>>>> 2012-09-26 11:19:29.947874 E [14131/1799] CoreContext 
>>>> mythdbcon.cpp:213 (OpenDatabase) - Unable to connect to database!
>>>> 2012-09-26 11:19:29.947896 E [14131/1799] CoreContext 
>>>> mythdbcon.cpp:214 (OpenDatabase) - Driver error was [1/2002]:
>>>> QMYSQL: Unable to connect
>>>> Database error was:
>>>> Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket 
>>>> '/opt/local/var/run/mysql5/mysqld.sock' (2)
>>> 
>>> Is mysql running/configured?
>> 
>> If you go to /Applications/MacPorts/Mythtv/Myth_Stop_Start.app, it 
>> should show you if mysql is running.  (It can't tell if the database 
>> is initialized, however.)
>> 
>> Have you seen the wiki page and done all the "Before first run" steps?
>> 
>> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MacPorts#Before_first_run
>> 
>> It is critical to first initialize the database and go through all 
>> the Myth-Setup steps.  Could you give me more details on those?
>> 
>> Craig
>> 
>> 
> 

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