[mythtv-users] Upgrade to Mint 21 broke mythweb

[Stephen Worthington]

On Thu, 13 Apr 2023 19:32:58 -0700, you wrote:

>On 4/10/23 13:42, Jay Harbeston wrote:
>>
>>> On Apr 10, 2023, at 3:28 PM, Douglas Peale <Douglas_Peale at Comcast.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> I have upgraded my computer to Mint 21
>>>
>>> MythTV front end and back end are working
>>>
>>> Browser says "Unable to connect" when trying to access https://localhost/mythweb/
>> Sounds like apache service is not running. That would be the first step.

>Update to this issue:
>
>I have done a clean install of mint 21, and restored my home directory (that was a nightmare caused by odd behavior of "BackInTime")
>
>I have installed the ppa for MythTV 33, and installed mythTV
>
>I have restored the database to MythTV and adjusted the passwords as required.
>
>Everything appears to be working, including mythweb.
>
>I did have a bit of trouble with the network tuners not being found, fixed after re-scanning for channels.
>
>has the race between MythBackEnd starting and the network starting been fixed in 33? or do I need to look through my notes on 
>how to fix that?
>
>
>Thanks.

No, the network race condition has not been fixed.  The systemd unit
mythtv-backend.service as installed by the packages is designed to
work with the majority of systems where they do not use network tuners
or have external frontends.  So if you do need mythbackend to wait for
the network to be fully up, you still need to do a fix for that.

However, mythbackend now does signal to systemd that it has fully
started up, so things that need to wait for mythbackend can now rely
on waiting for systemd to tell them that the mythtv-backend unit has
started.  To make it do this, you need to change the Type= line in the
[service] section to "Type=notify" (do this in an override file).
After that change, you will notice that when you manually run
"systemctl start mythtv-backend", the command will not return until
mythbackend has fully started up, so it will take much longer to get a
command prompt back again.