[mythtv-users] How to re-enable disconnected encoders on slave backend

[Marc MERLIN]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 11:36:28AM -0500, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Marc MERLIN <marc_mtv at merlins.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 10:41:23AM -0500, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
> > > Are you using hostnames or IP addresses?  I'm pretty sure you need to use
> > IP
> > > addresses everywhere.
> >
> > Define "everywhere". In the DB, entries already have hostnames and IPs. Is
> > there a place that IP or hostname only?
> 
> 
> In mythtv-setup, anywhere you define your address, the master address, etc.
> it should be by IP address.  If you have hostnames in there I would try
> using IP addresses.  If the hostname has changed (since Myth does store
> settings by hostname as you see in the DB) then there is a section in the
> official docs on mythtv.org on how to make sure that is right.  But anywhere
> in the setup where it asks for an IP, it needs an IP

You are correct, I do have an IP address in there, as required by the
interface (which asks for IP address and not hostname).

But it's true that at this point, it does look like my slave backend isn't
being registered with the master backend for some reason. It looks like I
just need to debug that portion now.

It does say that it's connecting:
2008-09-23 09:46:18.579 mythbackend version: 0.21.20080304-1 www.mythtv.org
2008-09-23 09:46:18.591 Enabled verbose msgs:  important general
2008-09-23 09:46:19.613 Connecting to master server: :6543
2008-09-23 09:46:19.644 Connected successfully

but then it looks like something fails:
2008-09-23 09:46:49.662 MythSocket(b3304e40:11): readStringList: Error, timeout.
2008-09-23 09:46:49.712 adding: gargamel.svh.merlins.org as a slave backend server
2008-09-23 09:46:49.750 MythSocket(b330a948:-1): writeStringList: Error, socket went unconnected.

and I found something better. It says:
2008-09-23 09:46:19.613 Connecting to master server: :6543
when it used to say:
2008-09-16 10:01:11.332 Connecting to backend server: 192.168.205.11:6543 (try 1 of 5)
2008-09-16 10:01:11.363 Using protocol version 40

(192.168.205.11 was the old IP of my mythtv server)

So, at this point it looks like there is just a small bug in my DB on
backend vs master server, or something that causes my slave backend to be
confused about it.

Here are my current values:
MasterServerIP  	192.168.205.61 	myth
ZoneMinderServerIP 	192.168.205.61 	myth
BackendServerIP 	192.168.205.61 	myth
BackendServerIP 	192.168.205.3 	gargamel.svh.merlins.org
BackendServerIP 	192.168.205.62 	myth-lvr

Any idea what could be wrong?

Marc
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