[plug] I am Mythtified by Mythtv

[Carl Gherardi]

On 01/10/2004, at 10:26 AM, christopher whittaker wrote:

> 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 dont think you have started the mysql server

Check to see you have the server installed:
rpm -q mysql-server

That should tell you the version number. If you get nothing you need to 
install it.

Then as root run:
service mysqld start

I cant advise on MythTV though, never played with it.

Carl