[mythtv] Cannot connect to the mythzmserver

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 12:51:48PM +0000, John Pilkington wrote:
> With my recent 0.28-pre-2422 build (8 Dec) I'm getting a popup about
> this when starting the frontend.  I don't use zm and haven't found
> anywhere to make zm-specific settings.  An attempt to uninstall
> mythzoneminder wanted to remove all of myth.
> 
> I don't think I saw the popup with my previous build from 7 Nov.
> 
> I can dismiss it with no apparent badness, but it's not
> user-friendly. Comments?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> John P
> 
> 2014-12-20 12:17:15.429256 I  Using localhost value of hpbox
> ***********
> 2014-12-20 12:17:17.213112 I  UDPListener: Enabling
> 2014-12-20 12:17:17.213773 I  Binding to UDP 127.0.0.1:6948
> 2014-12-20 12:17:17.213864 I  Binding to UDP 192.168.0.4:6948
> 2014-12-20 12:17:17.214005 I  Binding to UDP [::1]:6948
> 2014-12-20 12:17:17.214154 I  Binding to UDP
> [fe80::2038:a1ff:feb5:609e%enp0s25]:6948
> 2014-12-20 12:17:17.214254 I  Binding to UDP 192.168.0.255:6948
> 2014-12-20 12:17:17.251125 I  UI Screen Resolution: 1024 x 576
> 2014-12-20 12:17:17.342264 I  Using the Qt painter
> ************
> 2014-12-20 12:17:23.057829 I  Connecting to zm server:
> localhost:6548 (try 1 of 10)
> 2014-12-20 12:17:23.058727 E  No address defined for host: localhost
> 2014-12-20 12:17:23.061389 E  MythSocket(31e54a0:-1): Failed to
> connect to (::1:6548) Connection refused
> *********
> 2014-12-20 12:17:27.574048 E  MythSocket(3212000:-1): Failed to
> connect to (::1:6548) Connection refused
> 2014-12-20 12:17:28.075924 E  Unable to initialize plugin 'mythzoneminder'.
> 2014-12-20 12:17:28.146214 N  Found mainmenu.xml for theme 'MythCenter-wide'

Why does your machine not know what 'localhost' means?  Did you break
the /etc/hosts entry for localhost?

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Len Sorensen