[mythtv-users] Problems having mythbackend running after boot

Roger Siddons dizygotheca at ntlworld.com
Sun Jan 5 17:32:29 UTC 2014


On Sun, 05 Jan 2014 14:18:07 -0000, Bill Meek <keemllib at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 01/05/2014 06:34 AM, Marcel Jira wrote:

<snip>

>> I have very little knowledge about the cause of this error, but it may 
>> be related to the network configuration of my mythtv backend. I entered
>> 127.0.0.1 to the IP4-address and ::1 to the IP6-address.
>>
>> There's an error in the log saying
>> [CODE]E CoreContext serverpool.cpp:411 (listen) Failed listening on TCP 
>> [fe80::5246:5dff:fe50:5509%eth0]:6543 - Error 9: The address is not
>> available[/CODE]
>>

<snip>

>
> I had a similar problem and "solved" it by adding a sleep 5 just before 
> mythbackend
> was started (in my case that was done in an Upstart .conf file.) The 
> problem was that
> Upstart didn't guarantee that *all* of the addresses on the interface 
> were up. That
> may care for the 3rd post boot startup in your log, but the 1st 2 are a 
> bit scarier
> (Failed to connect to (127.0.0.1:6543) and I've not seen that.
>
> Good luck.
>

In the first 2 logs it is trying to run as a slave backend; the 3rd is ok

You could also try disabling IPv6, as described in  
http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/11030
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