[mythtv-users] arch mythtv

[Mike Perkins]

On 17/06/15 15:45, Kirk Bocek wrote:
>
>
> On 6/17/2015 7:14 AM, Frank Phillips wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 7:39 AM, James Linder <jam at tigger.ws
>> <mailto:jam at tigger.ws>> 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 <http://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 <http://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 <http://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 <http://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 <http://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 <http://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 <http://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
>>
>>
>> Your trying to connect to port 0. It should be 6543.
>>
>
> Checking the settings table on my database:
>
> value    data    hostname
> MasterServerIP    10.0.2.16    NULL
> MasterServerPort    6543    NULL
>
The other obvious thing is: have you checked your mysql settings? There's an 
entry on the config file my.cnf which disallows network access, although I can't 
remember exactly which it is.

What you describe would fit that scenario exactly.

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Mike Perkins