[mythtv-users] Yet another 'Could not connect to master backend server' post

[Marc]

-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Bryan Bennetts
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 8:17 AM
To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
Subject: [mythtv-users] Yet another 'Could not connect to master backend
server' post

Hi guys,

I'm trying to divine whats gone awry with my setup w.r.t. the above warning.

My setup :

1 BE+FE machine, using mythwelcome.
1 Remote Frontend

Both are running .21-fixes on Gentoo.

I have the Local server IP set to 192.168.0.102 (the BE+FE IP address) and 
likewise for the backend server IP.  When I boot my BE+FE machine (so that 
mythwelcome automagically starts the frontend) I get a warning dialogue 
stating 'Could not connect to the master back server -- is it running yada 
yada yada'.  If I hit okay the frontend then starts and everything is fine, 
if I don't hit okay the backend shuts the machine down as (presumably) no 
clients have attached.  Obviously this isn't ideal as it means waiting for 
the machine to boot and hitting the okay button within a set time frame.  
With this setup I can connect to the backend using the stand alone frontend 
machine with no warnings.

Does anyone have a setup similar to this, can they confirm that these are
the 
correct settings?  If I set the IP addresses to 127.0.0.1 then everything is

fine on the BE+FE machine, but unsurprisingly I cannot connect using the 
stand alone FE machine.

The setup has worked in the past, I'm not sure if I broke it tinkering with 
the settings, or whether it happened after updating the software.  I'm 
guessing the former.

Thanks in advance, Bryan.
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Brian,

I too use Gentoo, I have a Master BE machine and a remote BE+FE. However I
am using trunk not fixes.
I ran into a similar issue once I upgraded past the change to uPnP.
The issue with my machine was due to not having a config.xml setup in the
.mythtv folder on my machine.
Due to having a FE and BE on this machine I needed a config.xml in both the
root and in the mythuser .mythtv folders.

Marc