Or, you can create a local configuration file called "nupic-site.xml" or edit the existing "nupic-default.xml" with the mysql credentials you'd like to use. That will keep you from using a root user and no password.
See: https://github.com/numenta/nupic/wiki/Running-Swarms#prerequisites --------- Matt Taylor OS Community Flag-Bearer Numenta On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 8:35 AM, David Wood <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I’ve seen the same problem in the past. Setting a MySQL password in the NuPIC > configuration is insufficient to allow NuPIC to connect to MySQL. > > I’ve worked around this by setting my root MySQL password to null before > running NuPIC, then setting it back when I am finished with NuPIC: > [[ > mysqladmin --user root —password=<real password> password “" > ]] > ..where <real password> should be replaced with, err, your real password. > > I really should look into why the MySQL password in the NuPIC configuration > isn’t being respected... > > Regards, > Dave > -- > http://about.me/david_wood > > > >> On Apr 22, 2015, at 08:11, Matthew Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Jose, >> >> Yes, the problem is definitely MySQL. It's either not installed, not >> running, or there is no "root" account with no password. You'll have >> to figure out which. How you install MySQL depends on your OS, so I >> suggest you google your OS and "MySQL installation" and see how to do >> it. Then you'll need to figure out how to start MySQL. From my >> experience, this is also different depending on your OS. Google is >> your friend. :) >> >> Let me know how it goes. >> >> --------- >> Matt Taylor >> OS Community Flag-Bearer >> Numenta >> >> >> On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 6:58 AM, Jose Luis Contreras Santos >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I am facing some trouble with swarming, and I believe it's related to some >>> misconfiguration of mysql. For testing purposes, I tried to run the >>> OneHotGym tutorial, but I got this error (pastebin). >>> >>> When testing MySQL as stated in the wiki, I get an error too: >>> >>>> $ sudo python $NUPIC/examples/swarm/test_db.py >>>> Retrieved the following settings from NuPIC configuration: >>>> host : localhost >>>> port : 3306 >>>> user : root >>>> passwd : <my password> >>>> Traceback (most recent call last): >>>> File "/home/jose/repos/nupic/examples/swarm/test_db.py", line 48, in >>>> <module> >>>> raise RuntimeError("Couldn't connect to the database." >>>> RuntimeError: Couldn't connect to the database. Please ensure you have >>>> MySQL >>>> installed, running, and accessible using the NuPIC configuration >>>> settings. >>> >>> >>> I don't have too much experience with mysql, and I am having trouble trying >>> to solve this error, any clue? >>> >>> Thank you very much, help is really appreciated! >>> >>> Jose Luis >>> >>> PS: I'm sorry that until this point my questions are only boring ones, but I >>> am having quite a lot of problems before I can get the system to run. >> > >
