[mythtv-users] What am I doing wrong? (Could not open network socket)

Dave Bush statman at twcny.rr.com
Sun Aug 22 20:59:34 EDT 2004


Cedric Tefft wrote:

> Sounds like some other program is listening on one of your backend's 
> control sockets.  First, stop both the backend and frontend.  Next run 
> the backend setup program again and make note of which ports the 
> backend is configured to listen on (the defaults are 6543 and 6544, 
> but if you've modified them even by mistake..).  Now (with the backend 
> still shutdown), run (as root) 'netstat -a -p -n' and look for a 
> program that's listening on one of those ports.  Based on that 
> information, you'd want to change the configuration of MythTV or of 
> the conflicting program so that they don't listen on the same port(s) 
> anymore.

Thanks Cedric - it looks like mythbackend started automatically, but did 
not quite start right. When I killed all myth processes and manually 
started mythbackend it worked okay.

My biggest problem now lies with an incorrect tuner setting on my new 
PVR-350. (it's not tuner type 2 or 5 that I can tell - getting that 
"colors not quite right, and actualy channel watched = channel # -1" 
problem right now. Fighting through that at the moment. That's more an 
IVTV problem though, so I'll bug those folks next. ;)

Thanks,
- Dave


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