[mythtv-users] Brand new install - Mythbackend doesn't start

Mark Perkins perkins1724 at hotmail.com
Wed Aug 2 04:10:13 UTC 2017 

On 2 August 2017 1:17:13 pm Ashu Desai <ashu.desai at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 8:45 PM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Did you check on mysql/mariadb responding to the external ip (check
>> the wiki on how to do this.
>>
>> The frontend/backend are on the same box - and there isn't any external
> IP. i am testing everything all from home network.
> Here's what I did find though:
>
> ---------------
> Aug  1 22:27:32 mythmaster systemd: Started MythTV backend service.
> Aug  1 22:27:32 mythmaster systemd: Starting MythTV backend service...
> Aug  1 22:27:32 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-08-01 22:27:32.824647 C
>  mythbackend version: fixes/0.28 [v28.0-35-g812ec08] www.mythtv.org<http://www.mythtv.org>
> Aug  1 22:27:32 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-08-01 22:27:32.824669 C  Qt
> version: compile: 5.6.1, runtime: 5.6.1
> Aug  1 22:27:32 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-08-01 22:27:32.824671 N
>  Enabled verbose msgs:  general
> Aug  1 22:27:32 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-08-01 22:27:32.824938 N
>  Setting Log Level to LOG_INFO
> Aug  1 22:27:32 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-08-01 22:27:32.837289 I  Added
> logging to the console
> Aug  1 22:27:32 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-08-01 22:27:32.838125 I  Setup
> Interrupt handler
> Aug  1 22:27:32 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-08-01 22:27:32.838131 I  Setup
> Terminated handler
> Aug  1 22:27:32 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-08-01 22:27:32.838136 I  Setup
> Segmentation fault handler
> Aug  1 22:27:32 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-08-01 22:27:32.838138 I  Setup
> Aborted handler
> Aug  1 22:27:32 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-08-01 22:27:32.838142 I  Setup
> Bus error handler
> Aug  1 22:27:32 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-08-01 22:27:32.838150 I  Setup
> Floating point exception handler
> Aug  1 22:27:32 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-08-01 22:27:32.838152 I  Setup
> Illegal instruction handler
> Aug  1 22:27:32 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-08-01 22:27:32.838160 I  Setup
> Real-time signal 0 handler
> Aug  1 22:27:32 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-08-01 22:27:32.838165 I  Setup
> Hangup handler
> Aug  1 22:27:32 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-08-01 22:27:32.838198 N  Read
> conf dir = /etc/mythtv
> Aug  1 22:27:32 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-08-01 22:27:32.838229 N  Using
> runtime prefix = /usr
> Aug  1 22:27:32 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-08-01 22:27:32.838231 N  Using
> configuration directory = /etc/mythtv
> Aug  1 22:27:32 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-08-01 22:27:32.838288 I
>  Assumed character encoding: en_US.UTF-8
> Aug  1 22:27:32 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-08-01 22:27:32.838604 E  Error
> parsing: /etc/mythtv/config.xml at line: 1  column: 1
> Aug  1 22:27:32 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-08-01 22:27:32.838607 E  Error
> Msg: unexpected end of file
> Aug  1 22:27:32 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-08-01 22:27:32.838666 E
>  DBHostName is not set in config.xml
> Aug  1 22:27:32 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-08-01 22:27:32.838674 E
>  DBHostName is not set in config.xml
> Aug  1 22:27:32 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-08-01 22:27:32.838687 N  Empty
> LocalHostName.
> Aug  1 22:27:32 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-08-01 22:27:32.838693 I  Using
> localhost value of mythmaster.localdomain
> Aug  1 22:27:32 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-08-01 22:27:32.848276 N
>  Setting QT default locale to en_US
> Aug  1 22:27:32 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-08-01 22:27:32.848287 I
>  Current locale en_US
> Aug  1 22:27:32 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-08-01 22:27:32.848497 N
>  Reading locale defaults from /usr/share/mythtv//locales/en_us.xml
> Aug  1 22:27:32 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-08-01 22:27:32.852404 I
>  Loading en_us translation for module mythfrontend
> Aug  1 22:27:32 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-08-01 22:27:32.858057 I
>  Current MythTV Schema Version (DBSchemaVer): 1344
> Aug  1 22:27:32 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-08-01 22:27:32.858296 I
>  Loading en_us translation for module mythfrontend
> Aug  1 22:27:32 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-08-01 22:27:32.860040 N
>  MythBackend: Starting up as the master server.
> Aug  1 22:27:32 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-08-01 22:27:32.860795 W
>  MythBackend: No valid capture cards are defined in the database.
> Aug  1 22:27:32 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-08-01 22:27:32.861100 E
>  Scheduler: No capture cards are defined in the database.
> Aug  1 22:27:32 mythmaster mythbackend: Perhaps you should re-read the
> installation instructions?
> Aug  1 22:27:32 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-08-01 22:27:32.861186 E  Error
> parsing: /etc/mythtv/config.xml at line: 1  column: 1
> Aug  1 22:27:32 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-08-01 22:27:32.861188 E  Error
> Msg: unexpected end of file
> Aug  1 22:27:32 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-08-01 22:27:32.940295 I  Added
> logging to /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.20170802032732.23638.log
> Aug  1 22:27:32 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-08-01 22:27:32.945104 I
>  Removed logging to /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.20170802032732.23638.log
> Aug  1 22:27:32 mythmaster systemd: mythbackend.service: main process
> exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
> Aug  1 22:27:32 mythmaster systemd: Unit mythbackend.service entered failed
> state.
> Aug  1 22:27:32 mythmaster systemd: mythbackend.service failed.
>
> --------------
>
> I am running this as root - so i thought the dir should show /root/.mythtv/
> Looking at the dir, there is no "config.xml" under /etc/mythtv
>
> Maybe because I never ran this as anything but root?
>
>
> [root at mythmaster ~]# ls -ahl /etc/mythtv/
> total 32K
> drwxr-xr-x.   6 mythtv mythtv 4.0K Aug  1 22:27 .
> drwxr-xr-x. 140 root   root    12K Aug  1 22:23 ..
> drwxr-xr-x.   2 mythtv mythtv 4.0K Aug  1 20:00 3rdParty
> drwxr-xr-x.   2 mythtv mythtv 4.0K Aug  1 20:00 channels
> -rw-r--r--.   1 mythtv mythtv    0 Aug  1 22:27 config.xml
> drwxr-xr-x.   2 mythtv mythtv 4.0K Aug  1 20:00 themes
> drwxr-xr-x.   3 mythtv mythtv 4.0K Aug  1 20:00 tmp
>
> I looked into the config file - it was empty. So i created a link (ln -s)
> from /root/.mythtv/config.xml to /etc/mythtv
>
> That didn't work either.
>
>
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>>
>>
> Apologies.
>
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Are you sure the BE is running as root? Are you using systemd? What is in your service file?
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