[mythtv-users] Backend not found

Donavan Stanley geckofiend at gmail.com
Thu May 26 01:13:15 UTC 2005


On 5/25/05, Jens <jens at pacificsun.ca> wrote:
> Forgive the rather basic question ....
> I have been running MythTV on a single box (front and backend together) for
> some time now. Today I had a power failure and after this failure Myth
> refuses to start up correctly. It starts up OK but when I go to watch a show
> or a recoding it tells me that it couldn't find the backend (is it running ?)
> and it asks me if the IP number in the setup program is correct. I have
> looked in /etc/mythtv for any sort of configuration file with no luck.
> What is the 'setup program' referring to ? Since the myth box starts out in
> GUI mode automatically, and since I have not found a menu item that seems to
> allow IP configuration, what do I need to do ?


Chances are you have a lock file that's preventing your init script
from starting the backend.


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