I am running FC6 with MythTV suite yummed from ATrpms and I am having the same problem.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/7/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">John</b> <<a href="mailto:nesredep@gmail.com">nesredep@gmail.com
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br><br><div><span class="q"><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/7/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">
H P Ladds</b> <<a href="mailto:householdwords@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">householdwords@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span></span><span class="q"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<span>On 12/7/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">John</b> <<a href="mailto:nesredep@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">nesredep@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote">
</span><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">
<div> My system is Mepis 6 (uses Ubuntu repositories), and I used the mysql-server-4.1 and the <span id="st" name="st" class="st">mythtv</span> 18-point something, binaries.<br></div></blockquote></div><br></span>Wow! that is a pretty old version of
<span id="st" name="st" class="st">MythTV</span>. Older versions of <span id="st" name="st" class="st">MythTV</span> use a different protocol when connecting to mysql databases than current ones. However, the error warnings usually mention that their is a protocol problem. That doesn't seem to be the case here, but still I'd check into the possibility that mySQL
4.1 and myth 18.* don't work together. </blockquote></span><div><br>18.x is the version in the repository. And I picked mysql 4.1 because in the course of all my Googling, I came across somebody who claimed that mysql 5 didn't work and advocated version
4.1.<br> </div><span class="q"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Are you running <span id="st" name="st" class="st">mythtv
</span>-setup as a non-root user? Are you running the mythbackend as root?
</blockquote></span><div><br>Yep, <span id="st" name="st" class="st">mythtv</span>-setup as user <span id="st" name="st" class="st">mythtv</span>, and mythbackend as root.<br><br>John<br><br></div></div>
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