[mythtv-users] Xenial, upstart/systemd and mythbackend

Peter Bennett cats22 at comcast.net
Thu Oct 6 19:07:56 UTC 2016


On 10/06/2016 01:06 PM, Jeffrey Ratcliffe wrote:
> Since upgrading to Xenial and 0.28, every time something should
> restart mythbackend, I get the following:
>
> insserv: warning: current start runlevel(s) (3 4 5) of script `ntp'
> overrides LSB defaults (2 3 4 5).
> insserv: warning: current stop runlevel(s) (0 1 2 6) of script `ntp'
> overrides LSB defaults (1).
> initctl: Unable to connect to Upstart: Failed to connect to socket
> /com/ubuntu/upstart: Connection refused
> insserv: warning: script 'mythtv-backend' missing LSB tags and overrides
> insserv: Default-Start undefined, assuming empty start runlevel(s) for
> script `mythtv-backend'
> insserv: Default-Stop  undefined, assuming empty stop  runlevel(s) for
> script `mythtv-backend'
>
> and have to manually restart mythbackend with
>
> sudo service mythtv-backend restart
>
> I assume this means that the packagers are testing with upstart, but
> that Xenial comes by default with systemd, which seems not to be fully
> supported.
>
> Are there any plans to change this?
>
> Regards
>
> Jeff
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On xenial everything uses systemd. You will have to change the shutdown
commands in your mythtv-setup to use systemctl commands instead of the
start / stop commands.




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