If your ip or hostname changes, the mythfrontend might not be able to find the old configuration and might prompt you to reconfigure. You might want to configure a unique frontend identifier under settings->general, so that this never happens.
On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 11:51 PM, Zoltan Szecsei <zolt...@geograph.co.za>wrote: > On 2012/09/09 21:44, Marc Randolph wrote: > >> On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Zoltan Szecsei <zolt...@geograph.co.za> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> since running an update a week or so back, my 12.04 backend/frontend box >>> keeps putting me to the language/keyboard screen. >>> I've found that this is because it can no longer connect to mythconverg. >>> >>> I've just spent the last our tearing my hair out with google, but no >>> solution yet. >>> >>> Please can someone give me some pointers to solving this. >>> >>> Also, how to make this startup re-config not respawn itself, as it locks >>> me >>> out and I have to ssh in from another box. >>> >> >> Hi Zoltan, >> >> I have a brief moment to shoot an email here... what kinds of things >> have you tried? Is mysql running and is there a mythconverg database? >> > yes, yes - also tried chmod -R 777 on the directory > >> >> Marc >> >> Hi Marc, > I found that I could log into mythconverg from a console, but mythtv > couldn't. As I have zero sql abilities I could not, quickly enough, find > commands to change permissions to the tables, and check existing users and > passwords, so I simply re-installed mysql and mthtv - and I now have a > working system. (Well, perhaps only until I next reboot ;-) ) > > > Thanks for your interest, > Kind regards, > Zoltan > > -- > > ==============================**============= > Zoltan Szecsei PrGISc [PGP0031] > Geograph (Pty) Ltd. > P.O. Box 7, Muizenberg 7950, South Africa. > > 65 Main Road, Muizenberg 7945 > Western Cape, South Africa. > > 34° 6'16.35"S 18°28'5.62"E > > Tel: +27-21-7884897 Mobile: +27-83-6004028 > Fax: +27-86-6115323 www.geograph.co.za > ==============================**============= > > > > -- > Ubuntu-mythtv mailing list > Ubuntu-mythtv@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/** > mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-mythtv<https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-mythtv> >
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