On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 5:37 PM, Brad DerManouelian <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:myth@dermanouelian.com">myth@dermanouelian.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Oct 24, 2008, at 11:14 PM, daryl wrote:<br>
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> Now when I click the "finish" button I get this message "Cannot find<br>
> (ping) database host on network. Clicking on "ok" takes my back to the<br>
> first configuration page.<br>
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</div>You did install mysql server and set up the mythconverg database, right?<br>
<a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/User_Manual:Initial_Installation#Setup_mysql_database_mythconverg" target="_blank">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/User_Manual:Initial_Installation#Setup_mysql_database_mythconverg</a><br>
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</div></div></blockquote><div><br><br>What distribution are you running? If ubuntu, do NOT follow those instructions. The mythtv-database package should have installed this for you.<br><br>Your FIRST problem is that the username is the mysql username, not your machine username. This is likely mythtv (unless you manually set it up as something else).<br>
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