[mythtv-users] mythbackend startscript broken on fedora 19

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Mythtvuser,

Sunday, March 2, 2014, 1:13:44 PM, you wrote:

> Hello there,

> Since last week i updated my mythtv setup to version 0.27 on fedora
> and all is well. It was verry scary because i am using iptv and on
> 0.25 en 0.26 it was really broken that is why i stayed on 0.24..;)
> But can say iptv is working like a charm in 0.27.

> But now my problem.. After i installed everyting all was working
> well the only failure i have is that mythbackend is not starting on
> boot. The problem i have with it is that if i start the script mythackend gets an error

> 2014-03-02 13:09:09.269457 N [25523/25523] thread_unknown
> mythdirs.cpp:55 (InitializeMythDirs) - Using runtime prefix = /usr
> 2014-03-02 13:09:09.269461 N [25523/25523] thread_unknown
> mythdirs.cpp:61 (InitializeMythDirs) - Read conf dir = /var/lib/mythtv
> 2014-03-02 13:09:09.269476 N [25523/25523] thread_unknown
> mythdirs.cpp:68 (InitializeMythDirs) - Using configuration directory = /var/lib/mythtv
> 2014-03-02 13:09:09.269537 I [25523/25523] CoreContext
> mythcorecontext.cpp:249 (Init) - Assumed character encoding: en_US.UTF-8
> 2014-03-02 13:09:09.269692 E [25523/25523] CoreContext
> mythdbparams.cpp:39 (IsValid) - DBHostName is not set in config.xml
> 2014-03-02 13:09:09.269703 E [25523/25523] CoreContext
> mythdbparams.cpp:39 (IsValid) - DBHostName is not set in config.xml
> 2014-03-02 13:09:09.269710 N [25523/25523] CoreContext
> mythcontext.cpp:504 (LoadDatabaseSettings) - Empty LocalHostName.
> 2014-03-02 13:09:09.269713 I [25523/25523] CoreContext
> mythcontext.cpp:512 (LoadDatabaseSettings) - Using localhost value of mythtv
> 2014-03-02 13:09:09.275498 E [25523/25523] CoreContext
> mythdbcon.cpp:216 (OpenDatabase) - Unable to connect to database!
> 2014-03-02 13:09:09.275509 E [25523/25523] CoreContext
> mythdbcon.cpp:217 (OpenDatabase) - Driver error was [1/1045]:
> QMYSQL: Unable to connect
> Database error was:
> Access denied for user 'mythtv'@'localhost' (using password: YES)


> But when i start mythbackend manual under the user mythtv with the
> command " /usr/bin/mythbackend --daemon --logpath /var/log/mythtv" everything is working fine.

> I saw during startup in the log that the script was looking for
> config in the /var/lib/mythtv so i thought ok the files like
> mysql.txt and config.xml are in my setup under /home/mythtv/.mythtv
> so decided to softlink the dir .mythtv to /var/lib/mythtv/.mythtv
> but no luck.. Still i get the error above.

> Secondly the script i use is still an old startupscript because
> fedora decided to go to services.. I was wondering does anybody have
> an working services startup script or has figured out how to get the mythbackend script to run?

> Thanks for the help so far

> Regards
> Quint



If you give the current broken script I can have a look at it.

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  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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