I'm away from my mythtv computer at the moment so can't give logs or anything until later.
Installing mythtv on xubuntu 19.04. Hardware seems fine because, before installation of mythtv, I scanned for channels and got mpv to view live tv.
Installed mythtv with apt. Full package, combined frontend/backend.
It completed, but I saw some errors scroll by, and don't know where to look for logs or what diagnostic commands to run.
I ran mythtv-setup anyway to see what would happen. It couldn't connect to the database.
So mysql wasn't running. I got it running, and had to copy (link actually) /etc/mythtv/config.xml into user home .mythtv directories. There was an auto-generated password in there, so I connected to mysql and configured the mythtv id with that password.
mythconverge didn't exist so I followed the instructions to run mc.sql.
Now, running mythtv-setup, it gets past the "could not connect to database" screen, but I still see messages about tables not existing. And those tables are not mentioned in mc.sql.
Should these things have been set up during the apt install? There were a few text-mode install dialogs that came up during that. How do I back-track and double-check everything that should have been set up before running mythtv-setup?
Troubleshoot/redo install problems?
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Re: Troubleshoot/redo install problems?
The package install should have created the database for you. Clearly something did not work correctly.
It looks like there are some things missing from mc.sql.
I recommend you drop the mythconverg database and then follow the database setup instructions in the wiki at https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Build_from_ ... base_Setup .
Perhaps this should be a separate wiki page or included with wherever you found the reference to mc.sql. It is applicable to cases other than building from source.
It looks like there are some things missing from mc.sql.
I recommend you drop the mythconverg database and then follow the database setup instructions in the wiki at https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Build_from_ ... base_Setup .
Perhaps this should be a separate wiki page or included with wherever you found the reference to mc.sql. It is applicable to cases other than building from source.