<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 9:35 AM, James Orr <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:james.orr7@gmail.com" target="_blank">james.orr7@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Trying to get a frontend working with mythbuntu running off the CD.<div><br></div><div>When I go to play a recording I get a black screen for a moment and then sent back to the menu. In the backend logs I get ...</div><div>
<br></div><div><div>2009-03-28 09:26:52.042 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback</div><div>2009-03-28 09:26:52.073 adding: frontend as a client (events: 0)</div><div>2009-03-28 09:26:52.130 MainServer::HandleAnnounce FileTransfer</div>
<div>2009-03-28 09:26:52.184 adding: frontend as a remote file transfer</div><div>2009-03-28 09:26:52.252 RemoteFile::openSocket(control socket):</div><div> Could not connect to server "" @ port -1</div>
<div>2009-03-28 09:26:52.307 RemoteFile::openSocket(file data socket):</div><div> Could not connect to server "" @ port -1</div><div>2009-03-28 09:26:52.362 RingBuffer::RingBuffer(): Failed to open remote file ()</div>
<div>2009-03-28 09:26:52.429 RingBuf() Error: Invalid file descriptor in 'safe_read()'</div><div><br></div><div>However, live TV works fine ...</div><div><br></div><div><div>2009-03-28 09:29:38.203 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback</div>
<div>2009-03-28 09:29:38.234 adding: frontend as a client (events: 0)</div><div>2009-03-28 09:29:38.292 TVRec(3): Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV</div><div>2009-03-28 09:29:38.353 TVRec(3): HW Tuner: 3->3</div><div>
2009-03-28 09:29:40.080 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback<br></div><div>2009-03-28 09:29:40.133 adding: frontend as a client (events: 0)</div><div>2009-03-28 09:29:40.201 MainServer::HandleAnnounce FileTransfer<br></div>
<div>2009-03-28 09:29:40.311 adding: frontend as a remote file transfer<br></div><div><br></div><div>Googling turned up some stuff about this being a problem after changing the backend hostname, which I have not done and I can ping the backend by IP and hostname fine. I can also ping "frontend" from the backend.</div>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I decided to start with a fresh set of settings, so I changed the hostname to frontend2 and tried again. When I want to Watch Recordings, the preview movie is loading (previously I had it set on display thumbnail), however it's still doing the same thing when I try to watch it.</div>
<div><br></div><div>This isn't making any sense to me ...</div></div>