[mythtv-users] 0.27 woes

Raymond Wagner raymond at wagnerrp.com
Sun Sep 29 16:09:54 UTC 2013


On 9/29/2013 12:02 PM, Saul A. Peebsen wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Sep 2013 09:52:43 -0400
> "Stephen P. Villano" <stephen.p.villano at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 9/29/13 9:36 AM, Saul A. Peebsen wrote:
>>> Running Gentoo, (headless) BE and FE are different boxes.
>>>
>>>  From BE:
>>>
>>> 2013-09-29 08:29:28.458725 I  Listening on TCP 127.0.0.1:6543
>>> 2013-09-29 08:29:28.458765 I  Listening on TCP 192.168.2.6:6543
>>> 2013-09-29 08:29:28.462492 I  Listening on TCP [::1]:6543
>>> 2013-09-29 08:29:28.462577 I  Listening on TCP
>>> [fe80::21a:d4ff:fe02:4dc4%eth1]:6543
>>>
>>>  From FE:
>>>
>>> 2013-09-29 08:30:24.300367 E  MythSocket(7f7ef000f450:-1): Failed to
>>> connect to (192.168.2.6:6543) Operation on socket is not supported
>>> 2013-09-29 08:30:24.301447 E  RemoteFile::openSocket(control
>>> socket): Could not connect to server 192.168.2.6:6543
>>>
>>> What's wrong? Everything worked with 0.26. I can see the info page
>>> on port 6544.
>>>
>> Did you check mysql to see if it is listening for external
>> connections? In my.cnf it would be the bind_address.
>> bind-address        = 192.168.2.6    (Assuming that is your frontend,
>> which it appears to be).
>> Then, if that fails, check your mysql account for
>> mythtv at yourfrontendIP (put your IP there).
>> There is a nice article on that, though as I recall, that should
>> already be wildcarded in in later versions.
>
> Alright, it is not fixed. I can log into backend mysql from frontend as
> mythtv and as my user. Yet, frontend gives me:
>
> 2013-09-29 10:55:23.964856 E  MythSocket(7ff73000ae50:-1): Failed to
> connect to (192.168.2.6:6543) Operation on socket is not supported
> 2013-09-29 10:55:23.964888 E  RemoteFile::openSocket(control socket):
> Could not connect to server 192.168.2.6:6543
>
> Scratching my head. I attached a monitor to my headless BE and ran
> mythfrontend - success ...
> Why local FE can connect and remote FE cannot?

Firewall?


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