[mythtv-users] Setting up a second frontend

manu eallaud at yahoo.fr
Thu Feb 19 12:23:14 EST 2004


Le 19.02.2004 07:47:52, Bill Bradley a écrit :
> You dont have to run "mythsetup" on the frontend....
> 
> On Thursday 19 February 2004 08:27 am, Mark Crutch wrote:
> > Having finally managed to get my backend going, I'm trying to set  
> up
> a
> > second frontend. Both machines get their IP from DHCP, though the
> backend
> > has a fixed lease, giving me the following:-
> >
> > Backend:
> >   Hostname: hush
> >   IP (fixed lease): 10.0.0.3
> >
> > Frontend:
> >   Hostname: kitchen
> >   IP potentially varies, currently 10.0.0.50
> >
> >
> > I've tried setting up the frontend a few times now, but when I run
> > mythtvsetup I get the following error:-
> >
> >    Told to create a NEW database schema, but the database already
> >    has 44 tables.
> >    If you are sure this is a good mythtv database, verify
> >    that the settings table has the DBSchemaVer variable.
> >
> >
> > BTW, my backend and original frontend work fine, and the  
> DBSchemaVer
> > variable does exist. Although I found some references to this error
> in the
> > archives, I couldn't find anything directly relevant. Most of the
> answers
> > involved dropping the database and starting again, so that will be
> my next
> > step, but to save me wildly stabbing in the dark, could someone
> answer the
> > following questions:-
> >
> > 1) On the backend I have to set both "IP Address for hush" and
> "Master
> > Server IP address" to 10.0.0.3 right?
> >
> > 2) Do I need to edit /usr/share/mythtv/mysql.txt on the backend? At
> the
> > moment the DBHostName variable is set as "localhost", do I need to
> change
> > that to "hush"?

YES, the database is only on the master backend. So in order that the  
frontend can gather all infos (even the master backend IP) it must  
connect to the master backend database.
Bye
Manu
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