[mythtv-users] arch mythtv

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi James,

Wednesday, June 17, 2015, 2:39:47 PM, you wrote:

>  In quest of serious pain and suffering (really all about USB 3 and
> recent kernels fixing the problem, also tried android myth and
> stumbled over the encoding) I threw away my existing mythtv setup,
> used the distro (arch linux) compiled mythtv and installed myth keeping my current DB.
> [a unix guru is someone who has has a bad experience with rm; I’m
> having a bad experience with uefi]

> None of my front ends connect all claiming no backend even saying
> “backend is running” “no backend” at the same time.

> Browsing 192.168.5.33:6544 shows the schedule etc. Recordings are
> placed in the store, I can retrieve and watch in vlc. I can access
> the backend database ie mysql -umythtv -pmythtv -hbackend mythconverg shows the tables.

> But frontend says:

> 015-06-17 19:36:09.143575 E  MythSocket(107826ec0:-1): Failed to
> connect to (192.168.5.33:0) Unknown error
> 2015-06-17 19:36:09.143885 E  Connection to master server timed out.
>                         Either the server is down or the master server settings
>                         in mythtv-settings does not contain the proper IP address

> 2015-06-17 19:36:09.241548 I  MythCoreContext: Connecting to
> backend server: 192.168.5.33:0 (try 1 of 1)
> 2015-06-17 19:36:09.242276 E  MythSocket(113e1fac0:-1): Failed to
> connect to (192.168.5.33:0) Unknown error
> 2015-06-17 19:36:09.242496 E  Connection to master server timed out.
>                         Either the server is down or the master server settings
>                         in mythtv-settings does not contain the proper IP address

> 2015-06-17 19:36:14.243239 I  MythCoreContext: Connecting to
> backend server: 192.168.5.33:0 (try 1 of 1)
> 2015-06-17 19:36:14.244025 E  MythSocket(107d97760:-1): Failed to
> connect to (192.168.5.33:0) Unknown error
> 2015-06-17 19:36:14.244193 E  Connection to master server timed out.
>                         Either the server is down or the master server settings
>                         in mythtv-settings does not contain the proper IP address

> 2015-06-17 19:36:19.244579 I  MythCoreContext: Connecting to
> backend server: 192.168.5.33:0 (try 1 of 1)

> What on earth can the problem be? [this frontend has been working
> for years and worked up to my fiddle]
> Thanks
> James
> _______________________________________________

- Incorrect database ip-number or hostname on the frontends in
  ~/.mythtv/config.xml
- Incorrect backend ip-number or hostname in the database
- Missing dns entry (if you use dns-name i.s.o. ip-number


Tot mails,
  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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