[mythtvnz] What is the best MythTV distribution to use?

[dmoo1790 at ihug.co.nz]

On 11/08/2013 12:15, Worik Stanton wrote:
> Golly
>
> I have reinstalled from scratch to get my card recognised, but then I
> could not schedule recordings because it seemed that I could not 
> connect
> to the database.
>
> So having purged and reinstalled alll mysql and mythtv packages and
> reinstalled them I had to rerun dpkg-reconfigure mythtv-common to get
> mythconverg created, but then I could not connect to the database.
>
> mysql -u mythtv -h 127.0.0.1 -p mythconverg
> Enter password:
> ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'mythtv'@'localhost' 
> (using
> password: YES)
> q at rahel:/var/log/mythtv$
>
> I used all sorts of combinations of host and user.
>
> This must have been a mysql problem.  I could not solve it so I
> reinstalled from scratch, again.
>
> Now I am back to the start with an unrecognised card.  This is after 
> a
> complete fresh install.
>
> I should abandon ubuntu, or this version (mythbuntu 12.04).  13.04 is
> very buggy so I do not want that and I am in some sort of hellish 
> cycle
> with MythBuntu 12.04.
>
> I would like to start from scratch with some thing that wors as I 
> have
> spent 4 days on this and have got nowhere with what I have....
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Worik

There is a truly horrible gotcha with mysql. I think you need to NOT 
have a space between the -p and the password. Not totally sure but I 
have been burnt by this before. Or it could have been the user name.