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[dailyglen <1012376@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, I had the same problem.  Thanks for the fix...and yes, I wish there
was a better error message.  I don't think I would have figured this out
by myself.

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Title:
  DBI connect failed: Access denied for user 'mythtv'@'localhost'

Status in “mythexport” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Hi -

  Mythexport (on mythbuntu 12.04) fails to connect to the mysql
  database, for some reason I cannot work out. The ~/.mythtv/config.xml
  is set up correctly (mythtv itself works fine), and I can successfully
  browse the database in phpMyAdmin by using the same authentication
  credentials. Yet when I do "sudo /etc/init.d/mythexport start", this
  is the kind of thing that appears in /var/log/mythtv/mythexport.log:

  -------------
  June 12 21:22:50 dan-mythbox /usr/bin/mythexport-daemon[5643]: Starting Processing:  1339532570
  DBI connect('database=mythconverg:host=localhost;port=3306','mythtv',...) failed: Access denied for user 'mythtv'@'localhost' (using password: YES) at /usr/share/perl5/MythTV.pm line 351
  June 12 21:22:50 dan-mythbox /usr/bin/mythexport-daemon[5643]: Can't connect to MythTV: Cannot connect to database:
   at line 88 in /usr/bin/mythexport-daemon
  June 12 21:22:50 dan-mythbox /usr/bin/mythexport-daemon[5643]: Sleeping 5 seconds...  hostname dan-mythbox, myth->dbh  at line 89 in /usr/bin/mythexport-daemon
  DBI connect('database=mythconverg:host=localhost;port=3306','mythtv',...) failed: Access denied for user 'mythtv'@'localhost' (using password: YES) at /usr/share/perl5/MythTV.pm line 351
  June 12 21:22:55 dan-mythbox /usr/bin/mythexport-daemon[5643]: Can't connect to MythTV: Cannot connect to database:
   at line 88 in /usr/bin/mythexport-daemon
  June 12 21:22:55 dan-mythbox /usr/bin/mythexport-daemon[5643]: Sleeping 5 seconds...  hostname dan-mythbox, myth->dbh  at line 89 in /usr/bin/mythexport-daemon
  --------------

  I made a test script based on the mythexport code, as follows:

  #!/usr/bin/perl

  use strict;
  use POSIX qw(setsid);
  use DBI;
  use DBD::mysql;
  use Config::Simple;
  use MythTV;
  use Proc::Daemon;
  use Proc::PID::File;
  use Log::Dispatch;
  use Log::Dispatch::File;
  use Date::Format;
  use File::Spec;
  use File::Copy;
  use XML::Writer;
  use IO::File;

  use lib '/usr/share/mythexport';
  use lib '/usr/share/mythexport/configs';

  print "Dan's test script\n";

  our $HOSTNAME = `hostname`;
  chomp $HOSTNAME;

  my $connect = undef;
  my $myth = undef;

  my $tries = 5;
  while ($connect == undef && --$tries > 0) {
      eval {
          $myth = new MythTV();
          # connect to database
          $connect = $myth->{'dbh'};
          1;
      } or do {
          logerror("Can't connect to MythTV: $@");
          logdebug("Sleeping 5 seconds...  hostname $HOSTNAME, myth->dbh ");
          sleep(5);
      };
  }
  if ($connect == undef) {
      die "Couldn't connect to MythTV.";
  }
  -------------------------

  
  This script has no problems connecting (it prints out "Dan's test script" and nothing else). So why does mythexport choke? It seems mysterious! Any tips please?

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