[mythtv-commits] Ticket #12292: mythfrontend assumes that the mysql database and possibly the backend are local.

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#12292: mythfrontend assumes that the mysql database and possibly the backend are
local.
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     Reporter:  cerise-mythtv@…       |      Owner:
         Type:  Bug Report - General  |     Status:  new
     Priority:  minor                 |  Milestone:  unknown
    Component:  MythTV - General      |    Version:  0.27.3
     Severity:  medium                |   Keywords:
Ticket locked:  0                     |
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 Hi there, I'm using mythtv-0.27.3 (dated 20140907) on Gentoo.

 I have an unusual setup in that I have a server in one room which runs the
 backend and saves all the files into a directory which is shared via NFS.


 On my laptop, I used to be able to run mythfrontend on my laptop and it
 would connect to the database on the server and use the (identical)
 pathnames through NFS to access the files.

 Since upgrading to 0.27.3 (from some other version -- I don't recall
 which), mythfrontend forces me into mythtv-setup because it can't connect
 to ports on localhost.

 I have put in the IP address for the server on the backend in mythtv-setup
 and it's still trying to connect to localhost.  I just did a full
 examination of the mythtv databases and there is nowhere that an IP or
 hostname is used which does not correspond to the appropriate DNS name or
 the IP address of the server.

 I've set up some iptables rules to forward from my laptop to the server.
 I can tell that these rules work because I can connect to the mysql
 database on the server through mysql's command line tool..  There is no
 mysql database running on the laptop.  Moreover, by running iptables -t
 nat -L -v, I can see the packet & bytes counters increment when I run the
 mysql command line tool.

 I've noticed that if I use mythfrontend, then those packets don't go up at
 all.

 That indicates to me that mythfrontend is always trying to connect to the
 database by way of the local UNIX socket rather than the settings which
 I've put into mythtv-setup.

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Ticket URL: <https://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/12292>
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