<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Jul 15, 2009, at 8:55 AM, staticsupply wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Bitstream Vera Sans'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="Section1"><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">So I am very new to this program, but have spent the last few weeks spinning my wheels searching around on the internet trying to find out why I keep getting the same error and have come up dry.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 10pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">I have done a fresh install of ubuntu feisty and installed mythtv going through all the setups like I have seen in instructions online. However, now when I go to run the front end all I get is the can not connect to database message followed by the database connection setup menus. I am at a loss. I have tried both the ip of the actual machine as well as localhost and nothing seems to work. <o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 10pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">I am sure this is just a newbie issue and is something simple I am overlooking. Any help would be greatly appreciated!<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></div></div></span></blockquote></div><br><div><a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MythFrontend#Mythtv_frontend_on_a_remote_machine_can.27t_access_backend_running_on_a_second_machine">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MythFrontend#Mythtv_frontend_on_a_remote_machine_can.27t_access_backend_running_on_a_second_machine</a></div><div><br></div><div>Those issues can also apply to a machine that runs both the frontend and backend. I suspect you're trying to access the database via actual IP address and MySQL is bound to 127.0.0.1 or something like that.</div><div><br></div><div>-Brad</div><div><br></div></body></html>