id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component version severity resolution keywords cc mlocked 5434 nuvexport cannot handle '&' tobias@… xris "If the db-password contains an ""&"", mythtv will save it as an ""&"" in the config-file. So if nuvexport reads this file with the regular expression (and not via an xml-parser), it will not recognize this. The solution which worked for me was to replace the &. In line 278 of the MythTV.pm (I am using Ubuntu and in my case it's in /usr/share/perl5/) you can find this code: elsif ($line =~ m#(.*?)#) { $mysql_conf{'db_pass'} = $1; } I replaced this code with: elsif ($line =~ m#(.*?)#) { my $pwdtmp = $1; my $find = ""&""; my $replace = ""&""; $pwdtmp =~ s/$find/$replace/g; $mysql_conf{'db_pass'} = $pwdtmp; } Chris Peterson wrote me the following about the bug: [...] This is actually more about the perl bindings (which nuvexport uses) not unescaping entities in the XML code. Easy fix [...] If I can help anyhow, please let me know. Tobias" defect closed minor 0.21.1 perl / nuvexport 0.21 medium fixed 0