I have a AMD K6/2-500 system with a 10G disk and PVR350

Ran through Autoinstall and did not notice any errors. Rebooted completed
the install selecting i586. Now I have a blank desktop, with Xterm and
MythTv on the menu. Selecting MythTv doesn't seem to do anything.

/var/log/mythtv/mythtvbackend.log contains:
QSettings: error creating /.qt
QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty
QSettings: error creating /.qt
QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty
QSettings: error creating /.qt
QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty
QSettings: error creating /.qt
QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty
QSettings: error creating /.qt
QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty
QSettings: error creating /.qt
QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty
Unable to connect to database!
Driver error was [1/-1]:
QMYSQL3: Unable to connect
Database error was:
Unknown database 'mythconverg'

couldn't open db
QSettings: error creating /root/.qt
QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty
Unable to read configuration file mysql.txt
QSettings: error creating /root/.qt
QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty
QSettings: error creating /root/.qt
QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty
QSettings: error creating /root/.qt
QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty
QSettings: error creating /root/.qt
QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty
QSettings: error creating /root/.qt
QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty
Unable to connect to database!
Driver error was [1/-1]:
QMYSQL3: Unable to connect
Database error was:
Access denied for user: 'mythtv@localhost' (Using password: NO)

The second block of lines is reported once for each startup I think.

Any clues?
Thanks,
Steve

As root install-i586-l since the 350 has a remote. I think I goofed somewhere along the line w/ the i586 package. Gomen ne(sorry)

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cesman

When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!

yeah it looks like you didn't put the mysql password in there when you built the i586 package.

Thanks for the reply.

The install-i586-l script seems to fail:

dpkg: error processing mythtv-i586-lirc_0.12-1_i386.deb (--install): trying to overwrite `/etc/mythtv/mysql.txt', which is also in package mythtv-i586-lirc-xvmc
dpkg-deb:subprocess killed by signal (Broken pipe)

I tried removing the referenced mysql.txt file and rerunning - same result.

I don't know if this is relevant but I also noticed that sometimes on system
start up I get a system crash:

i2c-core.o client [saa7112[0]] registered to adapter....
invalid operand: 0000
ivtv <long list of module/package names here>
<register dump>

and the system hangs.

Other times there is a crash dump but the system boots

Thanks for any help
Steve

As root:
dpkg -r mythtv-i586-lirc-xvmc
install-i586-l

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cesman

When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!

Thanks for the reply. However the crash during system boot I referred to is now happening all the time so I guess I have to solve that first. I've re-installed several times - same result. I can install plain Knoppix V3.3 no problem.

Any ideas?

Thanks, got Myth running now. Updated ivtv as per your instructions.
Re did the install-i586 as per above.
Fixed mysql.txt as per here:
http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=434

Now, off to read the posts about the PVR blank screen issue.