[mythtv-users] culprit found? (was: Web Frontend stopped working yesterday)

[Janusz S. Bień]

On Fri, Jul 19 2019 at 13:54 -04, David Hampton wrote:
> On Fri, 2019-07-19 at 18:34 +0200, Janusz S. Bień wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 19 2019 at 11:59 -04, Jay Harbeston wrote:

[...]

>> If ps says the truth, there is only one backend running:
>> 
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> ps ax | grep mythbackend
>>  1295 ?        Ssl    3:04 /usr/bin/mythbackend --logpath
>> /var/log/mythtv --logl
>>  8222 pts/1    S+     0:00 grep mythbackend
>>  --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>> 
>> If nmap says the truth, the port 6543 is open and assigned to mythtv
>> service:
>> 
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> nmap -p 6543 0.0.0.0
>> Starting Nmap 7.70 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2019-07-19 18:21 CEST
>> Nmap scan report for 0.0.0.0
>> Host is up (0.00013s latency).
>> 
>> PORT     STATE SERVICE
>> 6543/tcp open  mythtv
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>> 
>> If the message
>> 
>> 0.0.0.0:6543 - ERROR 8: THE BOUND ADDRESS IS ALREADY IN USE
>> 
>> is the true, then some other mythtv service (is there any?) is using
>> it...
>
> Try the command: sudo netstat -tapn | grep 6543

Thanks, I was not familiar with this invocation.


> That will tell you what process pid/name has the port open.

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
 netstat -tapn | grep 6543

tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:6543            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      1295/mythbackend    
tcp6       0      0 :::6543                 :::*                    LISTEN      1295/mythbackend    

ps ax | grep mythbackend
 1295 ?        Ssl    6:33 /usr/bin/mythbackend --logpath /var/log/mythtv --loglevel crit
13947 pts/1    S+     0:00 grep mythbackend
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

I just realized that I have both mythbackend and mythtv-backend and my system
toggles between mythbackend and mythtv-backend in a semi-random way
without my intervention. The change can be causes e.g. by some package
update or reboot.

When mythbackend is running then WebFrontend seems to work.

Looks like mythbackend is started by systemd, and mythtv-backend by
init. Now the question is how to get rid of mythtv-backend.

Best regards

Janusz

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