Hi guys,
I borked my R5.5 install last night (but I ran mythbackup first!). It was late and I wasn't willing to take hours to troubleshoot what I did, so I decided to "upgrade" to R5.5. Install went fine, but when the scripts were working with the MySQL db it bombed out because there was no connection to the mythconverg db. In the xterm window, there was a message about no connection to the mythconverg db followed by what appeared to be a help menu listing the default parameters of whatever script was running (i.e. default database [mythconverg] and maybe 7-10 others. It was stuttering (not rolling) in the xterm and was making my eyes hurt.
) Sorry I did not take copious notes and the restore.log and Knoppmyth-run.log did not provide me with any insights. Since it was a db connectivity issue, I edited the bind-address in /etc/mysql/my.cnf to be the ip address of the box in question (not localhost as it was set) and rebooted. Things cleared up then. Just wanted to report in case anyone else comes across this.