Re: [gentoo-user] OT - mysql (WAS: [Re: OT - Need help with mythfronted GUI])

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On 1/8/06, Michael Sullivan <michael@espersunited.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 12:46 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > On 1/8/06, Michael Sullivan <michael@espersunited.com> wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 13:41 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> > > > On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 13:36 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> > > > > On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 11:22 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > > > > > On 1/8/06, Michael Sullivan <michael@espersunited.com> wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > I'm not going to mark my mythtv problem SOLVED until I'm sure that
> > > > > > > mythbackend is running stably.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Nor should you...
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > It seems to be working for now.  The
> > > > > > > problem is that I can't change channels in mythfrontend.  I'm watching
> > > > > > > live TV and I'm hitting the Up arrow key (as specified on mythtv's web
> > > > > > > site, but the channel is not changing.  What's worse is that it seems
> > > > > > > all that's on the one channel I get is infomercials!  How can I fix
> > > > > > > this???  I ran mythsetup and and went to the Channel Editor.  There were
> > > > > > > no channels defined.  I wanted the click the Scan For Channels button,
> > > > > > > but I couldn't figure out how to get to it.  Also, (I think it was in
> > > > > > > mythfrontend) I set the GUI to appear in a window instead of full
> > > > > > > screen.  It turned out to be not what I wanted and now I can't find the
> > > > > > > option to get the full screen mode back.  Help!
> > > > > >
> > > > > > After running mythsetup you then run mythfilldatabase. You should see
> > > > > > it logging into Zap2It and getting the channel data for the next 2
> > > > > > weeks. Is this working for you?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > When I hit the up arrow I do get a new channel. I can also just type
> > > > > > in a channel number and jump that way. I see no mention in the
> > > > > > mythbackend.log file that much happened. THere are a coupl eof lines
> > > > > > but they aren't very interesting and I doubt thay had anything to do
> > > > > > with this at all. More likely when I started the frontend on my PC.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > 2006-01-08 11:16:59.814 adding: lightning as a client (events: 0)
> > > > > > 2006-01-08 11:16:59.911 adding: lightning as a client (events: 1)
> > > > > > 2006-01-08 11:16:59.934 adding: lightning as a client (events: 0)
> > > > > > 2006-01-08 11:16:59.994 adding: lightning as a client (events: 0)
> > > > > > 2006-01-08 11:17:00.018 adding: lightning as a remote ringbuffer
> > > > > >
> > > > > > - Mark
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > After I ran mythfilldatabase for the umpteenth time I got a channel
> > > > > listing in the Channel Editor.  Next, I want to get mythfrontend working
> > > > > on my wife's computer.  It will need to use the database and mythbackend
> > > > > on my computer remotely.  Is there anything special I need to know to
> > > > > make this work?  I've already set up the IP address in mythsetup on my
> > > > > machine to my PC's network address...
> > > >
> > > > I ssh'd over to my wife's machine and tried running mythfrontend.
> > > > Apparently it can't connect to my mysql server.  I added two lines to
> > > > the end of my /etc/mysql/my.cnf file last night that was supposed to fix
> > > > this:
> > > >
> > > > skip-innodb
> > > > set-variable=thread_stack=256k
> > > >
> > > > but I guess it didn't...
> > >
> > > I changed the bind-address option in my PC's /etc/mysql/my.cnf file from
> > > "127.0.0.1" to "0.0.0.0" and restarted mysql.
> >
> > 0.0.0.0 is unroutable. You need to put in the actual IP address of
> > your backend server. As I said in a previous email that is
> > 192.168.1.55 for our setup here.
> >
> >
> > I then tried to run
> > > mythfrontend from my wife's PC in an ssh environment.  I got a lot of
> > > errors that were copies of this:
> > >
> > > 2006-01-08 14:19:51.309 Unable to connect to database!
> > > 2006-01-08 14:19:51.309 Driver error was [1/1130]:
> > > QMYSQL3: Unable to connect
> > > Database error was:
> > > Host 'catherine.espersunited.com' is not allowed to connect to this
> > > MySQL server
> >
> > this is because you have not run the commands that I showed you where
> > you allow network clients have access to MySQL. This is pointed out in
> > the link I sent you earlier.
> >
> > Note: I do not run the frontend client  through an ssh tunnel. I have
> > the frontend only on all our machines. My fronteld client points at
> > the server's IP address. (192.168.1.55) The mysql database on the
> > server is set up to allow network access. The frontend client talks to
> > it and only the video runs across the network.
> >
> > >
> > > catherine is my wife's computer, located at 192.168.1.4  My computer is
> > > camille, at 192.168.1.3  When I tried to telnet into my mysql server, I
> > > got the same message:
> > >
> > > catherine ~ # telnet camille 3306
> > > Trying 192.168.1.3...
> > > Connected to camille.
> > > Escape character is '^]'.
> > > S\x04Host 'catherine.espersunited.com' is not allowed to connect to this
> > > MySQL serverConnection closed by foreign host.
> > >
> > > How do I fix this?  I had a similar problem a long time ago and as far
> > > as I can tell it was fixed by changing the mysql server's bind-address
> > > to 0.0.0.0.  That didn't work this time.  BTW, I'm using mysql version
> > > 4.1.14...
> >
> > As I said earlier, follow the instructions on the link I gave you to
> > give network access to the mysql database.
> >
> > - Mark
> >
>
> What instructions?  Are you referring to the GRANT line?  I did that
> yesterday.  As for the mythbackend server IP, I set that two or three
> days ago.  It's in the database correctly:
>
> mysql> select * from settings WHERE value = 'BackendServerIP';
> +-----------------+-------------+----------+
> | value           | data        | hostname |
> +-----------------+-------------+----------+
> | BackendServerIP | 192.168.1.3 | camille  |
> +-----------------+-------------+----------+
> 1 row in set (0.00 sec)
>
> What else do I need to do?

Again, I'm not that good on this stuff but it's this basic command:

The specific grant command is this one, or something like it:

% mysql -u root -p
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON mythconverg.* TO 'mythtv'@'remotehost'
IDENTIFIED BY 'password'

Before you do that make sure you have camille's address in /etc/mysql/my.cnf:

# keep secure by default!
bind-address    = 192.168.1.3
port            = 3306
# this can make it even more secure:

Make sure you have 192.168.1.3 in the mythsetup stuff for the server.

At this point you should try logging into the mysql server from a
terminal on both the server and your wife's machine. If you cannot log
in then neither can Myth. From my terminal on a frontend only PC:
(default password was mythtv on my system)

dragonfly ~ # mysql -u mythtv -h 192.168.1.55 -p mythconverg
Enter password:
Reading table information for completion of table and column names
You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A

Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 123 to server version: 4.0.25

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer.

mysql> exit
Bye
dragonfly ~ #

Hope this helps,
Mark

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