[mythtv-users] Re: Myth having problems communicating across master/slave backends

Nick knowledgejunkie at gmail.com
Thu Aug 25 09:30:07 UTC 2005


On 8/25/05, Chad <masterclc at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/23/05, Chad <masterclc at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 8/23/05, Nick <knowledgejunkie at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 8/24/05, Isaac Richards <ijr at case.edu> wrote:
> > > > On Tuesday 23 August 2005 06:12 pm, Nick wrote:
> > > > > On 8/23/05, Chad <masterclc at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > > Does anybody have any ideas?  I know it's a long post, but I didn't
> > > > > > want to leave out any pertinent info.
> > > > >
> > > > > Are you sure you have the SBE configured correctly? I don't think it
> > > > > should work on its own (without communicating with the SBE), as it
> > > > > should be using the MBE Database to store/retrieve data. mysqld should
> > > > > not be running on the SBE
> > > >
> > > > true.
> > > >
> > > > > nor should any capture cards be defined in
> > > > > the SBE setup. This should all be done when the SBE has connected to
> > > > > the MBE, and mythtvsetup is run on the MBE to add the capture cards
> > > > > available on the SBE machine.
> > > >
> > > > false.
> > >
> > > Apologies Isaac and Chad - I honestly meant video sources on the MBE.
> > > Configure the physical capture devices on the SBE. Then connect them
> > > to the appropriate video sources defined on the MBE.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Nick
> > > _______________________________________________
> >
> >
> > Thank you for your replies!
> >
> > I can only guess I borked something on the slave when I installed my
> > pchdtv 3000 a while back.  The database actually resides on another
> > machine not running myth at all, but I do need mysql on the slave for
> > other purposes as it's not just a myth box, so it is running, but the
> > database is being accessed correctly as far as I can tell.
> >
> > I'll try dropping all the data on the slave, uninstalling,
> > reinstalling, and re-configuring myth and see how that goes.  If it
> > works, I'll post back with success, if not, I'll see if I can give
> > more information.
> >
> > In the mean time, if anyone has any additional ideas, I'm open.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> 
> And it's still not working.  I can actually trigger the error though.
> When I click on the Status tab in Mythweb, it starts the ball rolling,
> every time.  From then on, I get the error both from mythweb and in
> the terminal I started mythfrontend on (on the same machine, just for
> troubleshooting's sake) noting a MYTH_PROTO_VERSION error.

Chad,

If your slave backend is turned off, does mythweb's status page work normally?

Nick


More information about the mythtv-users mailing list