[mythtv-users] connection timeout (frontend won't talk to backend on same system)
Chris McCuller
cpmccull at valdosta.edu
Thu Sep 21 16:54:29 UTC 2006
I finally was able to get it working by starting mythbackend up as a
daemon OR as root and starting frontend as the mythtv user. Don't know
why it wasn't working otherwise, but it works great now.
Thanks!
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Chris McCuller cpmccull at valdosta.edu
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Tom Lichti wrote:
> Chris McCuller wrote:
>> here's the relevant debug output (mythfrontend -v socket) from the
>> frontend as I try to Watch Live TV and get the error message that it
>> can't connect to the backend (running on the same box).
>>
>> 2006-09-20 17:17:51.287 NetworkControl: Listening for remote connections
>> on port 6546
>> 2006-09-20 17:17:57.249 New DB connection, total: 2
>> 2006-09-20 17:17:57.256 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
>> localhost
>> 2006-09-20 17:17:57.271 MythSocket(c2a120:20): new socket
>> 2006-09-20 17:17:57.278 Connecting to backend server: 127.0.0.1:6543
>>
>> this help with trying to ascertain what's going on?
>>
>
> Can you get a connection by doing this:
>
> telnet localhost 6543
>
> I suspect it won't work. If you run ifconfig, do have an lo (loopback)
> device?
>
> Tom
>
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