[mythtv-users] fedora boot script leads to protocol mismatch

hary wilke harywilke at yahoo.com
Tue Apr 19 22:23:25 UTC 2005


On Apr 20, 2005, at 12:58 AM, Robert Johnston wrote:

> On 4/19/05, hary wilke <harywilke at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> I setup the latest myth from CVS last night mostly following jarods
>> guide, apt-get'ing most all of the stuff, and then grabbing myth 
>> proper
>> from the CVS, compiling and installing.
>>
>> after doing "chkconfig mythbackend on" and "service mythbackend 
>> start",
>> or after a reboot, mythfrontend complains of a protocol mismatch. says
>> that the backend is running 14 and the frontend is running 15
>>
>> starting mythbackend manually and then launching mythfrontend works,
>> but if i use the boot init script i get the protocol mismatch every
>> time.
>
> Sounds to me like there's 2 copies of MythBackend, an older one that's
> being called by the startup script, and a newer one that's in the
> path.
>
> Try running a "which mythbackend" and putting the full path in your
> startup script.
> -- 
> Robert "Anaerin" Johnston
>

Ah-Ha! thanks for the super speedy reply. a quick search revealed that 
is exactly what was happening.
found one in /usr/bin/ and the newer one in /usr/local/bin/
I just deleted the old one and linked the new one to where the old one 
was and everything works just peachy now.
-hary



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