On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 7:46 PM, Nick Rout <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nick.rout@gmail.com" target="_blank">nick.rout@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Thomas Mashos <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thomas@mashos.com" target="_blank">thomas@mashos.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><div>On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Karl Newman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:newmank1@asme.org" target="_blank">newmank1@asme.org</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra">
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<div><div><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Darethehair <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:darethehair@gmail.com" target="_blank">darethehair@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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This one is extremely subtle, and all my sleuthing skills have not
helped me so far <img src="cid:part1.02010605.09090506@gmail.com" alt="" title="Sad" border="0"><br>
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Running 0.25 on a fresh LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) server.
Local Backend/frontend work fine, and remote frontend also now works
fine. Noticed that install has set up automatic start for
mysql/mythtv-backend (verified by 'chkconfig') and scripts in
'/etc/init.d'.<br>
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However, upon rebooting, noticed that the remote frontend was no
longer able to connect to the backend, with non-helpful messages:<br>
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<div>Code:</div>
<pre style="min-height:36px">I MythCoreContext: Connecting to backend server: <a href="http://192.168.1.101:6543" target="_blank">192.168.1.101:6543</a> (try 1 of 1)
E Connection to master server timed out.
Either the server is down or the master server settings
in mythtv-settings does not contain the proper IP address
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Oddly, a remote 'mysql' connect still works, right owner is running
the processes, correct ports are open (verified by 'nmap'), so what
is the problem?<br>
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If I then <b>manually</b> restart mythbackend via the command line:<br>
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<pre style="min-height:36px">sudo /etc/init.d/mythtv-backend restart</pre>
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...then the remove frontend starts working again!<br>
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I have done a lot of Googling, but the problems I see only have to
do with <b>failures</b> of an auto-started backend -- in my case,
the backend starts up (mostly) fine.<br>
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Why would an auto-started backend not work with a remote frontend,
but a manually-started one does? If this some subtle timing issue?<br>
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Help would be appreciated! <img src="cid:part2.05060505.01060300@gmail.com" alt="" title="Smile" border="0">
</div><br></blockquote></div><br></div></div>To diagnose a timing issue, could you add a delay (60 seconds?) to the init.d script? The thing that comes to mind is a possible networking issue (binding to the wrong interface or something?)<span><font color="#888888"><br>
<br>Karl<br>
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<br></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">If I recall correctly (wagnerrp will correct me if I'm wrong :) ), if the backend starts before networking is up, it will only listen on localhost (and won't check again if other interfaces come up). So a delay in the script should fix this (or having it depend on eth0 which IMO is better).<br>
<br></div></blockquote><div><br>Isn't this a job that some developer should undertake, ie the debian/ubuntu init script should wait on the appropriate network device being up?<br><br>Perhaps it needs to be configurable on the installation of the mythbackend package, asking the user which networking interface the backend will be listening on? <br>
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<br></blockquote></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Best we can do is cover most of the people then people with odd setups will need to do some minor configuration. Currently we wait for something that isn't lo to come up (which works in a majority of cases).<br>
</div><br clear="all">Thanks,<br><br>Thomas Mashos<br></div>