[mythtv-users] Upstart Job fails to connect to backend

[Mike Perkins]

On 04/10/13 18:28, Doug Lytle wrote:
>>> I've upgraded from 0.25 to 0.27, it's mostly working, but after recent updates, the upstart job no longer connects to the backend.
>
> Below is a copy of my upstart script that I use:
>
> cat mythbackend.conf
> # MythTV Backend service
>
> description "MythTV Backend"
> author "Mario Limonciello <superm1 AT ubuntu DOT com>"
>
> start on (local-filesystems and net-device-up IFACE!=lo and started udev-finish and started mysql)
> stop on runlevel [016]
>
> #expect fork
> respawn
> respawn limit 2 3600
>
> pre-start script
> [ -x /usr/sbin/mysqld ] || exit 0
> for i in `seq 1 30` ; do
> /usr/bin/mysqladmin --defaults-file=/etc/mysql/debian.cnf ping && exit 0
> sleep .5
> done
> end script
>
> script
> test -f /etc/default/locale && . /etc/default/locale || true
> LANG=$LANG env HOME=/root /usr/local/bin/mythbackend --logpath /var/log/mythtv --syslog local7
> end script
>
Is the backend process supposed to be running with HOME set as the root user? 
This seems unusual.

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Mike Perkins