[mythtv-users] Network Control Socket

[Phil Bridges]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 2:40 PM, R. G. Newbury <newbury at mandamus.org> wrote:
> On 03/18/2012 04:21 PM, Raymond Wagner wrote:
>
>> The only thing I can think is that either the control socket itself has
>> stalled somehow, or perhaps you have an older zombified instance of the
>> frontend listening on it instead.  Check your frontend logs.  They
>> should register the initialization of that mechanism.  On 0.25, you
>> should see something like...
>>
>> 2012-03-10 01:15:06.794107 I [15388/15388] CoreContext
>> serverpool.cpp:292 (listen) - Listening on TCP 127.0.0.1:6546
>> 2012-03-10 01:15:06.794190 I [15388/15388] CoreContext
>> serverpool.cpp:292 (listen) - Listening on TCP 10.254.2.32:6546
>> 2012-03-10 01:15:06.794293 I [15388/15388] CoreContext
>> serverpool.cpp:292 (listen) - Listening on TCP [0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1]:6546
>>
>> I don't know off hand what you would be looking for in 0.24, but '6546'
>> would be a good thing to grep for.
>
> Here's a startup of mythfrontend. Interestingly, although logpath is
> given the mythfrontend.log file is zero bytes. No mention of 6546
> although 6547 is mentioned.
>
> And NEITHER 6546 NOR 6547 appear in the settings table!  ?????
>

Huh?  I see 6546 in both select replies.

<snip>

> mysql> select value,data from settings  where data like "%654%";
> +--------------------+------+
> | value              | data |
> +--------------------+------+
> | MasterServerPort   | 6543 |
> | NetworkControlPort | 6546 |
> | BackendServerPort  | 6543 |
> | BackendStatusPort  | 6544 |
> +--------------------+------+
> 4 rows in set (0.00 sec)
>
> mysql> select value,data from settings  where value like "%Port%";
> +------------------------+------------------------+
> | value                  | data                   |
> +------------------------+------------------------+
> | MasterServerPort       | 6543                   |
> | EITTransportTimeout    | 1                      |
> | MythMusicLastImportDir | /well/music            |
> | GalleryImportDirs      | /mnt/cdrom:/mnt/camera |
> | MTDPort                | 2442                   |
> | UDPNotifyPort          | 6948                   |
> | NetworkControlPort     | 6546                   |
> | BackendServerPort      | 6543                   |
> | BackendStatusPort      | 6544                   |
> +------------------------+------------------------+
> 9 rows in set (0.00 sec)
>
>