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

Hika van den Hoven hikavdh at gmail.com
Sun Jul 30 16:34:17 UTC 2017


Hoi Ashu,

Sunday, July 30, 2017, 6:21:24 PM, you wrote:





> On Sat, Jul 29, 2017 at 7:12 PM, DryHeat122 . <dryheat122 at gmail.com> wrote:

> IDK about a zero card backend, but I would investigate


> 170729 15:51:26 [Note] Hostname 'mythmaster.localdomain' does not resolve to '172.16.10.188'.
> 170729 15:51:26 [Note] Hostname 'mythmaster.localdomain' has the following IP addresses:
> 170729 15:51:26 [Note]  - ::1%1


> Backend does not like IP address confusion.  



> That is exactly what I am trying to troubleshoot. I looked at the database, 


> Here's the output:


> -----------------------
> | ImageTransitionType               | 1                             | NULL                   |
> | ImageTransitionTime               | 1000                          | NULL                   |
> | BackendServerIP                   | 172.16.10.188                 | mythmaster.localdomain |
> | AllowLinkLocal                    | 1                             | mythmaster.localdomain |
> | BackendServerPort                 | 6543                          | mythmaster.localdomain |
> | BackendStatusPort                 | 6544                          | mythmaster.localdomain |
> | MasterServerIP                    | 172.16.10.188                 | NULL                   |
> | MasterServerPort                  | 6543                          | NULL                   |
> | MasterBackendOverride             | 1                             | NULL                   |
> | DeletesFollowLinks                | 0                             | NULL                   |
> | TruncateDeletesSlowly             | 0                             | mythmaster.localdomain |
> | HDRingbufferSize                  | 9400                          | NULL                   |
> | StorageScheduler                  | BalancedFreeSpace             | NULL                   |
> | UPnP/WMPSource                    | 0                             | NULL                   |
> | DisableAutomaticBackup            | 0                             | NULL                   |
> | DisableFirewireReset              | 0                             | mythmaster.localdomain |
> | EITTransportTimeout               | 5                             | NULL                   |
> | EITCrawIdleStart                  | 60                            | NULL                   |


> ----------------------- 

> I don't see anywhere during mythtv-setup or on frontend setup
> either where the IP is not given that would say 0.0.0.0


> Personally I think this is what is causing it - but can't seem to figure out where to look for it.




> Also check the log to find out which config.xml is being used. It
> can exist in like three different places, but only one is actually
> used. One on of my systems it's in /etc/mythtv and on another it's in /home/[username]/.mythtv



> the /var/log/messages say it's using  


> ---------------------
> Jul 30 11:16:50 mythmaster systemd: Started MythTV backend service.
> Jul 30 11:16:50 mythmaster systemd: Starting MythTV backend service...
> Jul 30 11:16:51 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-07-30 11:16:50.924896
> C  mythbackend version: fixes/0.28 [v28.0-35-g812ec08] www.mythtv.org
> Jul 30 11:16:51 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-07-30 11:16:50.924912
> C  Qt version: compile: 5.6.1, runtime: 5.6.1
> Jul 30 11:16:51 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-07-30 11:16:50.924914 N  Enabled verbose msgs:  general
> Jul 30 11:16:51 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-07-30 11:16:50.924968 N  Setting Log Level to LOG_INFO
> Jul 30 11:16:51 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-07-30 11:16:50.935825 I  Added logging to the console
> Jul 30 11:16:51 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-07-30 11:16:50.936057 I  Setup Interrupt handler
> Jul 30 11:16:51 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-07-30 11:16:50.936061 I  Setup Terminated handler
> Jul 30 11:16:51 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-07-30 11:16:50.936064
> I  Setup Segmentation fault handler
> Jul 30 11:16:51 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-07-30 11:16:50.936066 I  Setup Aborted handler
> Jul 30 11:16:51 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-07-30 11:16:50.936069 I  Setup Bus error handler
> Jul 30 11:16:51 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-07-30 11:16:50.936073
> I  Setup Floating point exception handler
> Jul 30 11:16:51 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-07-30 11:16:50.936075
> I  Setup Illegal instruction handler
> Jul 30 11:16:51 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-07-30 11:16:50.936081
> I  Setup Real-time signal 0 handler
> Jul 30 11:16:51 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-07-30 11:16:50.936084 I  Setup Hangup handler
> Jul 30 11:16:51 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-07-30 11:16:50.936107 N  Read conf dir = /etc/mythtv
> Jul 30 11:16:51 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-07-30 11:16:50.936131 N  Using runtime prefix = /usr
> Jul 30 11:16:51 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-07-30 11:16:50.936132
> N  Using configuration directory = /etc/mythtv
> Jul 30 11:16:51 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-07-30 11:16:50.936175
> I  Assumed character encoding: en_US.UTF-8
> Jul 30 11:16:51 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-07-30 11:16:50.936412 N  Empty LocalHostName.
> Jul 30 11:16:51 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-07-30 11:16:50.936417
> I  Using localhost value of mythmaster.localdomain
> Jul 30 11:16:51 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-07-30 11:16:50.943621
> N  Setting QT default locale to en_US
> Jul 30 11:16:51 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-07-30 11:16:50.943628 I  Current locale en_US
> Jul 30 11:16:51 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-07-30 11:16:50.943653
> N  Reading locale defaults from /usr/share/mythtv//locales/en_us.xml
> Jul 30 11:16:51 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-07-30 11:16:50.947643
> I  Loading en_us translation for module mythfrontend
> Jul 30 11:16:51 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-07-30 11:16:50.953134
> I  Current MythTV Schema Version (DBSchemaVer): 1344
> Jul 30 11:16:51 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-07-30 11:16:50.953377
> I  Loading en_us translation for module mythfrontend
> Jul 30 11:16:51 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-07-30 11:16:50.954626
> N  MythBackend: Starting up as the master server.
> Jul 30 11:16:51 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-07-30 11:16:50.955318
> W  MythBackend: No valid capture cards are defined in the database.
> Jul 30 11:16:51 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-07-30 11:16:50.955618
> E  Scheduler: No capture cards are defined in the database.
> Jul 30 11:16:51 mythmaster mythbackend: Perhaps you should re-read the installation instructions?
> Jul 30 11:16:51 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-07-30 11:16:51.036408
> I  Added logging to
> /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.20170730161650.25258.log
> Jul 30 11:16:51 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-07-30 11:16:51.128501
> I  Removed logging to
> /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.20170730161650.25258.log
> Jul 30 11:16:51 mythmaster systemd: mythbackend.service: main
> process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
> Jul 30 11:16:51 mythmaster systemd: Unit mythbackend.service entered failed state.
> Jul 30 11:16:51 mythmaster systemd: mythbackend.service failed.


> ----------------------



> Not sure what seems to be causing it. 


Try adding your ip-address/hostname to /etc/hosts.

You probably there have:

127.0.0.1    localhost
::1          localhost

Try adding:

172.16.10.188      mythmaster       mythmaster.localdomain


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