[mythtv-users] Frontend only system, but has mythbackend running?

[Stephen Worthington]

On Tue, 9 Nov 2021 06:52:13 -0500, you wrote:

>I have a desktop system that runs mythfrontend only.  I installed it 
>adding the repository via add-apt-repository ppa:mythbuntu/31 followed 
>by sudo apt install mythtv-frontend
>
>I noticed when I do systemctl status mythtv-backend.service it shows the 
>service is enabled and running. But I've never setup it up on this 
>system. This frontend is connected to the production backend.
>
>So last week I disabled the service.  I got and mythtv update today, and 
>the service is enabled again.
>
>Why is there a mythtv-backend.service on a frontend only system?

You can try removing the backend packages and see if there is some
dependency that is causing the problem.  If you can just uninstall
them, and none of the frontend packages are listed to be uninstalled,
then do that.

I just happen to have spun up a clean Ubuntu 21.10 virtual machine
today, so I installed the v31-fixes repository and asked synaptic what
packages would be installed if I installed mythtv-frontend.  There
were no backend packages.  I have MariaDB installed, but that should
not make any difference.