<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Nick Morrott <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:knowledgejunkie@gmail.com">knowledgejunkie@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="h5">On 8 May 2010 18:03, Andrew <<a href="mailto:mythtv@heathsworld.com">mythtv@heathsworld.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Andrew <<a href="mailto:mythtv@heathsworld.com">mythtv@heathsworld.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> I just upgraded to JYA .23 and now when I start mythfront is tells me it<br>
>> cannot connect to the database. What I found is the backend is showing the<br>
>> error below (BE and FE on same machine). As it turns out, when the system<br>
>> tries to start the back end it gets permission denied when trying to access<br>
>> the database. Yet if i start it as a user or root using "mythbackend"<br>
>> command it connects just fine. Did the configuration file location get<br>
>> changed or something? Obviously /.myth doesn't exist and show below.<br>
>><br>
>> Would you like to configure the database connection now? [no]<br>
>> [console is not interactive, using default 'no']<br>
>> 2010-05-08 10:04:39.354 Deleting UPnP client...<br>
>> 2010-05-08 10:04:39.942 Failed to init MythContext, exiting.<br>
>> 2010-05-08 10:04:40.032 mythbackend version: branches/release-0-23-fixes<br>
>> [24473] <a href="http://www.mythtv.org" target="_blank">www.mythtv.org</a><br>
>> 2010-05-08 10:04:40.032 Using runtime prefix = /usr<br>
>> 2010-05-08 10:04:40.032 Using configuration directory = /.mythtv<br>
>> 2010-05-08 10:04:40.033 Unable to read configuration file mysql.txt<br>
>> 2010-05-08 10:04:40.033 Empty LocalHostName.<br>
>> 2010-05-08 10:04:40.033 Using localhost value of myth<br>
>> 2010-05-08 10:04:40.037 New DB connection, total: 1<br>
>> 2010-05-08 10:04:40.042 Unable to connect to database!<br>
>> 2010-05-08 10:04:40.043 Driver error was [1/1045]:<br>
>> QMYSQL: Unable to connect<br>
>> Database error was:<br>
>> Access denied for user 'mythtv'@'localhost' (using password: YES)<br>
>><br>
>> To summarize, only using the upscript to start the backend fails. Any<br>
>> starting with the mythbackend command from the terminal and it works fine.<br>
>><br>
><br>
> Oddly enough, ps -aux shows the upscript running as root.<br>
><br>
> root 18020 0.5 0.6 287324 39032 ? D 11:45 0:00<br>
> /usr/bin/mythbackend --logfile /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log<br>
><br>
> but it cannot access the database. Why would running it directly from a<br>
> root terminal work, but the upstart script running as root not work? What<br>
> happened with .23 that may have changed this and what did it change?<br>
<br>
</div></div>It's likely that $HOME is not defined in the upstart script, so it is<br>
looking in /.mythtv/ instead of /root/.mythtv/ (or wherever your<br>
config is stored). This issue has similarly reared its head frequently<br>
when using the older init scripts.<br>
<br>
Nick<br>
<br>
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Nick Morrott<br></blockquote><div><br>Looks like ubuntu has committed to upstart and it's now broken with mythtv. Using the new upstart method breaks. I can't seem to find a fix yet.<br><br>$ start mythtv-backend<br>
start: Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.93" (uid=1000 pid=21758 comm="start) interface="com.ubuntu.Upstart0_6.Job" member="Start" error name="(unset)" requested_reply=0 destination="com.ubuntu.Upstart" (uid=0 pid=1 comm="/sbin/init"))<br>
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