On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 2:04 AM, Johnny <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jarpublic@gmail.com">jarpublic@gmail.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="im">> HOWEVER! I can't get into mysql as described in<br>
> <a href="http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-23.html#ss23.5" target="_blank">http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-23.html#ss23.5</a> because mysql<br>
> apparently wants to know what root's mysql password is and I can't<br>
> find anything to tell me what it is. I found a MythBuntu help page<br>
> here (<a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MysqlPasswordReset" target="_blank">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MysqlPasswordReset</a>) about<br>
> resetting the password, but that failed, saying I had the<br>
> --skip-grant-tables option on so it wouldn't allow the command to set<br>
> root's password.<br>
<br>
</div>The root password is blank by default, so unless you set it something<br>
it should still be that way. Mythbuntu creates a random mysql password<br>
for the mythtv user, but not for root. Try 'mysql -u root' and see if<br>
that works.<br>
<div><div></div><br></div></blockquote></div><br>I think in the latest Mythbuntu the mysql root password gets set to the same password as your user account.<br>