[mythtv-users] Mythbuntu 16.04 Fresh Install - always starts MythTV Setup on boot

[Kingsley Turner]

On 13/07/16 10:02, Kingsley Turner wrote:
> On 13/07/16 08:02, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
>> Hoi Kingsley,
>>
>> Tuesday, July 12, 2016, 11:50:28 PM, you wrote:
>>
>>> G'day,
>>> I migrated from Mythbuntu 14.04 to 16.04, and for the most part it's been
>>> flawless.
>>> I dumped my database, restored on a clean install, all good.
>>> However, on reboot it always re-runs the MythTV Setup programme in a window.
>>> If I exit this, and start the front-end manually everything is OK.
>>> Screen-shot:http://208.92.232.73/Junk/1604_start.jpg
>>> Any ideas why it's doing this?
>>
>> Very probably your network is not jet fully on when MythTV starts.
>> There are many recent items on this subject in this list and I believe
>> there is also something in the WIKI. In essence you have to make
>> MythTV wait on the network.
>>
> Thanks for that Hika!
>
> For me on Mythbuntu 16.04 it looks like the network is slow to start 
> because the network interface details are not set by the NetworkManager 
> software until the user-login is complete.
>
> So to fix this, I:
>
> Disabled the NetworkManager ~
> |sudo stop network-manager|||
> |    echo "manual" | sudo tee /etc/init/network-manager.override|
> ||||||
> |Set the network interface to have static IP Address.  Note: you need to 
> do an "ifconfig" to see the (potentially new) name of your ethernet port.
> Since the update, mine has become renamed from "eth0" to "enp6s0"
> |
> |Add to /etc/network/interfaces ~
>     auto enp6s0
>     iface enp6s0 inet static
>     address 192.168.1.20
>     netmask 255.255.255.0
>     gateway 192.168.1.1
>     dns-nameservers 192.168.1.1
> |
> |Seems to have fixed that issue OK.|

|Actually I spoke too soon.
It still comes up almost every time.

Myth-backend is taking a while to start, but it's nothing to do with the 
network interface.
This is quite a speedy box too, maybe I need to add a delay before the 
front-end GUI launches.

cheers,
-kt

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