On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 07:07:22PM -0500, Jon N wrote: > Hi, > > I've built a new machine and installed 64bit Debian testing on it. I > also installed MythTV from the deb-multimedia repository. My old > computer has been used for MythTV (mostly recording/playback over the > air TV) for years, and I would like to have the new hardware take over > the job soon. But I ran into a difference between the 2 computers I'm > not sure about. > > On the old computer I can run 'mythtv-setup' when logged in as myself, > not the 'mythtv' user. But on the new computer when I run it as > myself I get asked my country and language 1st, then on the next > screen, Database Configuration 1/2, I get the message "MythTV can not > connect to the Database. Please verify you database settings below." > As far as I can tell they are correct. I can not get past the next > page (2/2), it sends me back to the country and language selection > again.
Check that ~/.mythtv/config.xml is valid. Running mythtv-setup as yourself should be valid, but if it can't read the database settings, then it will assume you're setting up anew.
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