Comment 12 for bug 41339

This bug still exists in MythTV today (3.26.07) in Beta 1+ updates. It's a real pain. There's a meta package to setup a complete mythtv backend that should make it simple for a user to configure but actually breaks their system because the mythtv-database package will not configure.

Problem: mysql-server is a dependency of mythtv-backend. When mythtv-backend is installed the mysql server is installed, but not configured with a password for the root user. Then mythtv-backend prompts the user for the root's password, but not properly distinguish between the root user's plain old password (which may / may not exist) and the mysql user's password. The user doesn't know what the mysql server password is so they enter their own password or something else and the package fails.

Solution: When mythtv-backend or similar meta packages trigger the installation of mysql they need to configure it. A password for the root user should be set and then mythtv-backend should be setup using this password. Otherwise this whole meta-package should go away because as it is the package just breaks systems until you remove mythtv-database or manually setup a password.