[mythtv] Problem trying to istall MythTV on Debian

Isaac Richards ijr at po.cwru.edu
Thu Jan 16 12:42:41 EST 2003


On Thursday 16 January 2003 12:31 pm, Merle Reine wrote:
> Understood.
>
> I get the following intermittently when I run:  mythbackend  and then
> mythfrontend:
>
> connecting to backend server: localhost:6543
> Could not connect to backend server
>
> Then it kills mysql and  mythbackend .
>
> Sometimes it connects correctly and other times it exhibits this
> behavior.  Any ideas?

Make sure the backend's actually listening on that port, and note that if you 
reinstall things, it will write over the default backend_settings.txt file.  
Otherwise, no, I don't know what could be wrong with it.

Isaac



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