[mythtv-users] upstart mythtv-backend

[Mike Bibbings]

On 13/02/16 15:12, Marius Schrecker wrote:
> I'm banging my head trying to get mythtv-backend to start at boot.
>
> sudo service mythtv-backend start works fine, so it seems like the job 
> is just not set to start up.
>
> Googling had brought up a few, similar problems, but all have been to 
> do with either mysql not starting or no network, neither of which is 
> the case for me.
>
> /etc/init is full of .conf files, including both mysql.conf and 
> mythtv-backend.conf, the content of which I'm copying below.
>
> mysql also has a conventional init.d script with symlinks to rc2-5.d, 
> so maybe that's starting from there?
>
> I symlinked /etc/init.d/mythtv-backend  to /lib/init/upstart-job, as 
> advised on various forums, although it doesn't make much sense to me. 
> When invoking it I got
> initctl: Unable to connect to Upstart: Failed to connect to socket 
> /com/ubuntu/upstart: Connection refused.
>
> I feel really stupid here, but have managed to avoid upstart up to 
> now. Looks like I'll have to learn!
>
> init script follows:
> /# MythTV Backend service
>
> description     "MythTV Backend"
> author          "Mario Limonciello <superm1 at ubuntu.com>"
>
> start on (local-filesystems and net-device-up IFACE=lo and started 
> udev-finish)
> stop on runlevel [016]
>
> #should die within 5 seconds, but we don't want data loss, so set it to 30
> #before we send SIGKILL
> kill timeout 30
>
> #if we crash, but not quickly
> respawn
> respawn limit 2 3600
>
> #because we're daemonizing to avoid logging to upstart log
> expect fork
>
> pre-start script
>     [ -x /usr/sbin/mysqld ] || exit 0
>     for i in `seq 1 30` ; do
>        /usr/bin/mysqladmin --defaults-file=/etc/mysql/debian.cnf ping 
> >/dev/null && exit 0
>        sleep .5
>     done
> end script
>
> script
>         test -f /etc/default/locale && . /etc/default/locale || true
>         LANG=$LANG exec /usr/bin/mythbackend --syslog local7 --user 
> mythtv --daemon
> end script/
>
> BR.
>
> Marius
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I am running 0.28pre from the ppa, on Ubuntu 15.10, from memory all I 
had to do was :

sudo systemctl enable mythtv-backend.service

Mike
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