Flaccid, I can't exactly follow what the workaround posted above was doing since his site went down. Based on the fact that it is trying to get into the database by a random string of characters, I would bet those characters were the password generated for your mythtv user on the mysql database.
During the install of mythtv-database, the information that is used is the username and password stored in /etc/mythtv/mysql.txt. If you have since then changed the information used here in an attempt to resolve the database problem, that would be why you can't properly install mythtv-database. At this point, sudo apt-get -f install or sudo dpkg-reconfigure mythtv-database should complete the install of mythtv-database. If there are permissions problems, the first thing to do is verify that /etc/mythtv/mysql.txt contains the correct information. If the database is already created and has data, edit this file to match the database name, user name, and password. If there are still issues here, and you can login to the database using the mysql command and your database username and password, then we have a problem here. Contact me off this bug, and we will attempt to nail this before edgy release. -- Mythtv won't install https://launchpad.net/bugs/41339 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
