[plug] I am Mythtified by Mythtv

[christopher whittaker]

Hello,

 I would really appreciate some help on this one, I am running fedora
Core 2 i686 , fully up to date . Pentium 2.4, 1G ram, 120G hard drive
sound card, video card, tv card , graphics card all recognized and
working.

I have tried to run Mythtv from the panel and the Run Application
box,and it wouldn't even load then when trying to run from the VI
terminal got the following error

mythtv
Unable to connect to database!
Driver error was [1/2002]
QMySQL3: Unable to connect
database error was:
cant connect to MySql server through socket 
'/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock(2)

cant connect to db

I have tried this in user and then in root . I installed the packages
through synaptic and yum on the vi and am confident that all
dependencies were picked up.Synaptic shows that all packages are
installed on the system.I have also uninstalled and then reinstalled all
packages to be sure.

I have looked for the files in var /lib and there is no mysql file but
there is one for mythtv which is empty.

I am a relative newby and have been able to usually muddle through by
myself but this one has got me beat.

I would appreciate some help on this , all packages were downloaded as
fedora core 2 .

Thank You 

Christopher Whittaker

Also what is the difference, when I start my computer it goes through
the usual but then I have a choice of what kernal to boot. i386(which
was the original disc) which i updated to i586 which then gives me a
choice of i586 ans i586smp what is smp