[mythtv-users] Separate Frontend - New Install

Mike Perkins mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk
Fri Aug 4 15:46:26 UTC 2017


On 04/08/17 16:28, Ashu Desai wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 9:46 AM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hoi Ashu,
>>
>> Friday, August 4, 2017, 4:31:28 PM, you wrote:
>>
>>> Guys
>>> So I finally managed to get my BE up on a new CentOS 7.
>>
>>> My FE:
>>> * Zotac Ion with Nvidia
>>> * 4 Gb RAM
>>> * HDMI out
>>
>>> I read the wiki and it seems to state that for the FE, I just need
>>> to install " mythtv-frontend" package.
>>> https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Installing_MythTV_on_Ubuntu
>>
>>> (I know it says Ubuntu, but I checked Debian wiki and it says same
>>> thing. And there IS a mythtv-frontend package so I figured I was in the
>> right direction)
>>
>>> However, it crashes and gives segmentation fault when doing that.
>>> It doesn't have the right IP and no config.xml file.
>>
>>> https://pastebin.com/kCsFkPWP
>>
>>> I created a config file under /etc/mythtv and here's the mythfrontend
>> log
>>
>>> https://pastebin.com/hDn4QPYw
>>
>>> Should I be installing the "mythtv" package as well?
>>
>> If you want to run a frontend on another machine then is running your
>> backend, you have to adapt mysql/mariadb to listen on your ip-address.
>> By default it doesn't. Check the WIKI on installing external
>> frontends.
>>
>>
> Yes, I did go to mysql -u -p root mythconverg and did the "grant all on
> mythconverg.* to mythtv@"%" identified by "mythtv";
>
> This didn't work either.
>
> This is what I see
>
> 2017-08-04 11:16:55.819145 E  MythCoreContext::GetBackendServerIP(): No
> address defined for host: localhost
> 2017-08-04 11:16:55.827508 E  MythSocket(7faf6c094160:-1): Failed to
> connect to (::1:6543) Connection refused
> 2017-08-04 11:16:55.828350 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
>
> I copied the config.xml from my backend, changed the "local host name" on
> first line - still same error.
>
That's not what was meant. You have to remove or comment out the "bind-address" line in the 
mysql/mariadb config.

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Mike Perkins



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