[mythtv-users] .24 mythbuntu daily builds repo

[Mario Limonciello]

Josh:

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 8:19 PM, Josh White <jaw1959 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>  Not a fun time for me in myth land.  Hearing all the good news and
> relative few horror stories, I decided to upgrade to .24 from a stock
> mythbuntu 10.10 .23 installation.  While the upgrade went reasonably well at
> the beginning, it's been less than ideal since.  Every machine in my stable
> has been much less reliable, and now my backend fails to start.  here's what
> I see when I launch it from a command line:  (my backend has been working
> satisfactrilly since April of this year when I last did a fresh Myhbuntu
> 10.04 OS/Myth install).
>
> 2010-11-16 21:05:02.360 mythbackend version: branches/release-0-24-fixes
> [27235] www.mythtv.org
> 2010-11-16 21:05:02.360 Using runtime prefix = /usr
> 2010-11-16 21:05:02.360 Using configuration directory = /home/josh/.mythtv
> 2010-11-16 21:05:02.361 Empty LocalHostName.
> 2010-11-16 21:05:02.361 Using localhost value of Myth-Backend
> 2010-11-16 21:05:02.362 Testing network connectivity to '192.168.1.5'
> 2010-11-16 21:05:02.479 New DB connection, total: 1
> 2010-11-16 21:05:02.485 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
> 192.168.1.5
> 2010-11-16 21:05:02.493 Closing DB connection named 'DBManager0'
> 2010-11-16 21:05:02.494 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
> 192.168.1.5
> 2010-11-16 21:05:02.497 Current locale EN_US
> 2010-11-16 21:05:02.498 Reading locale defaults from
> /usr/share/mythtv//locales/en_us.xml
> 2010-11-16 21:05:02.509 Current MythTV Schema Version (DBSchemaVer): 1264
> 2010-11-16 21:05:02.514 ThreadPool:HTTP: Initial 1, Max 25, Timeout 60000
> 2010-11-16 21:05:02.515 MediaServer::HttpServer Create Error
> 2010-11-16 21:05:02.517 MythBackend: Starting up as the master server.
> 2010-11-16 21:05:02.523 New DB connection, total: 2
> 2010-11-16 21:05:02.524 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
> 192.168.1.5
> 2010-11-16 21:05:02.525 New DB connection, total: 3
> 2010-11-16 21:05:02.526 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
> 192.168.1.5
> 2010-11-16 21:05:02.748 New DB scheduler connection
> 2010-11-16 21:05:02.749 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
> 192.168.1.5
> 2010-11-16 21:05:02.754 Enabled verbose msgs:  important general
> 2010-11-16 21:05:02.760 Failed to bind port 6543. Exiting.
> 2010-11-16 21:05:02.760 Backend exiting, MainServer initialization error.
>
>
> I'm new to the daily build world.  is it possible to use on a "production"
> system?  I've only been using it for 3 days, and I've had a separate issue
> each of those days. Iv'e been updating daily as none of my systems seem
> reliable yet, hoping that one day it will all work as expected.  While .23
> wasn't perfect, it was stable enough that I'd only have to reboot every
> couple of weeks when the frontends would slow down, etc. Any suggestions for
> how I can approach this issue, and can I expect things to eventually work or
> should I just rebuild my .23 system and wait till things mature?
>
> I hope I don't come across overly negative, I've had a frustrating day, and
> now even my TV is messing with me!
>
> Thanks for any suggestions,
>
> Josh
>
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> How are you starting and stopping the backend?  That sounds like a symptom
of manually running mythbackend rather than using the upstart job.  You will
want to be using the upstart job at all times.

Upstart:
sudo start mythtv-backend
and
sudo stop mythtv-backend

Manually:
sudo mythbackend -d
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