[mythtv-users] OS X -Mac Mythfrontend can't find backend, won't give me the setup screen

Evan Burrows eburrows at gmail.com
Thu May 26 02:55:06 UTC 2005


I had a similar issue.  I also tried the osx packager script but it
always resulted in a make error.  Assuming that everything was placed
in the default locations when you installed the myth osx frontend go
to a terminal and go into you home directory. Then cd into .mythtv
directory. You should see a file called mysql.txt, you can change the
backend IP in that file then retry starting the frontend. After making
sure my backend was looking accepted incoming connections and the
backend IPs were the same I restarted the osx frontend and everything
was fine.  Hopefully that is what you are looking for.

Good luck



On 5/25/05, Kent Ypma <kentypma at gmail.com> wrote:
> Okay - I'm  new to OS X, so bear with me.  The prebuilt mythfrontend
> was working well for me until I made the mistake of changing IP
> addresses for the backend server.  Now when I click on the icon it
> just hangs.  When I run the app from a command line I get an error
> that it can't find the database - but it's looking at the wrong IP
> Address.  So, I reinstalled, tried different versions, nothing got me
> back to the setup screen.  After searching the archives I created a
> new user and after logging in and clicking on the mythtv icon, I got
> the setup screen and was able to give it the proper ip address for the
> backend and everything works beautifully.  Unfortunately, my initial
> user account isn't fixed.
> So here is my best guess:
> The ip information is being kept in some user dependent file outside
> of the mythtv package and if I could find that file I could just
> manually give it the right IP Address.  Can anyone give me a kick in
> the right direction on this?
> 
> TIA,
> Kent
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