[mythtv] Cannot connect to the mythzmserver

[John Pilkington]

On 20/12/14 17:42, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 05:37:21PM +0000, John Pilkington wrote:
>> On 20/12/14 15:34, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>>> 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?
>>
>> [john at HP_Box SRPMS]$ cat /etc/hosts
>> 127.0.0.1   localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4
>> localhost4.localdomain4
>> ::1         localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6
>> localhost6.localdomain6
>
> I wonder if localhost resolving to two different things is a problem.
>
> I wonder if it knows how to speak IPv6.  Maybe it doesn't know how to
> talk to ::1.
>
>> [john at HP_Box SRPMS]$ hostname
>> HP_Box
>> [john at HP_Box SRPMS]$
>>
>> I supposed it had something to do with the 'hpbox' defined in config.xml
>
> Well it did explicitly say it could not find the address for localhost.
> So the hostname shouldn't matter.
>
I understand that IPv6 is supposed to be active by default in SL7;  just 
found this which looks as if it might be relevant:

http://www.linux-servers.org/tag/rhel7/