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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">Bill and Stephen:</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">Hey neat! Got a
second forum e-mail this morning! (Usually just the one at 7 a.m.
CTZ [Iowa/Chicago])</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">Do have Backend 3
(the one we’re working on) plugged in to the network and BE2
unplugged because of the previous screw up on BE1 when I was
trying
to configure the system before asking for help.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">Bill: </p>
<pre class="western">No need to guess what config.xml is in play. Just look at the log output.
A line containing this will give you the answer:</pre>
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<p>So I'm not quite doing the easy way but works:</p>
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<p>barry@Backend-3:~$ cat
/var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log | grep -i directory</p>
<p><br>
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<p>And extracting I see “Using configuration directory =
/home/mythtv/.mythtv” so looks like the other
config.xml’s are ignored.</p>
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<p>And of course my “for what’s it’s worth here’s more
probably useless info”:</p>
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<p><font face="Liberation Sans Narrow, sans-serif">May
26 09:50:32 Backend-3 mythbackend:
mythbackend[1986]: N thread_unknown mythdirs.cpp:205
(InitializeMythDirs) Using configuration directory =
/home/mythtv/.mythtv</font></p>
<p><font face="Liberation Sans Narrow, sans-serif">May
26 09:50:33 Backend-3 mythbackend:
mythbackend[2041]: N thread_unknown mythdirs.cpp:205
(InitializeMythDirs) Using configuration directory =
/home/mythtv/.mythtv</font></p>
<p><font face="Liberation Sans Narrow, sans-serif">May
26 09:50:35 Backend-3 mythbackend:
mythbackend[2056]: N thread_unknown mythdirs.cpp:205
(InitializeMythDirs) Using configuration directory =
/home/mythtv/.mythtv</font></p>
<p><font face="Liberation Sans Narrow, sans-serif">May
26 09:50:37 Backend-3 mythbackend:
mythbackend[2062]: N thread_unknown mythdirs.cpp:205
(InitializeMythDirs) Using configuration directory =
/home/mythtv/.mythtv</font></p>
<p><font face="Liberation Sans Narrow, sans-serif">May
26 09:50:39 Backend-3 mythbackend:
mythbackend[2068]: N thread_unknown mythdirs.cpp:205
(InitializeMythDirs) Using configuration directory =
/home/mythtv/.mythtv</font></p>
<p><font face="Liberation Sans Narrow, sans-serif">May
26 09:50:40 Backend-3 mythbackend:
mythbackend[2074]: N thread_unknown mythdirs.cpp:205
(InitializeMythDirs) Using configuration directory =
/home/mythtv/.mythtv</font></p>
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<p>File has a ton more at the top but if thiis tells
anything should be sufficient. I noticed the times:
groups of 10 per request. Previous group 09:01.
Guessing ten tries before times out. Also noted the
number in square brackets increments. I have the
feeling you are more interested in the Notification
comment, but probably already know it exists because
of some other problem.</p>
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</p>
<p>Since you guys can’t see what I see here I try to
provide info.</p>
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<pre class="western"><i>/home/barry/</i>.mythtv/config.xml and <i>/home/mythtv/</i>.mythtv/config.xml
should be symbolic links to /etc/mythtv/config.xml. You can check
that with:
ls -ld <i>/etc/mythtv/config.xml /home/</i>{mythtv,barry}/.mythtv/config.xml</pre>
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<p><font face="Liberation Mono, monospace"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">barry@Backend-3:~$
ls -ld /etc/mythtv/config.xml
/home/{mythtv,barry}/.mythtv/config.xml</font></font></p>
<p><font face="Liberation Mono, monospace"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">-rw-rw---- 1
mythtv mythtv 454 May 20 15:03
/etc/mythtv/config.xml</font></font></p>
<p><font face="Liberation Mono, monospace"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">-rw-r--r-- 1
barry barry 487 May 20 15:04
/home/barry/.mythtv/config.xml</font></font></p>
<p><font face="Liberation Mono, monospace"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">lrwxrwxrwx 1 root
root 22 May 12 17:59
/home/mythtv/.mythtv/config.xml ->
/etc/mythtv/config.xml</font></font></p>
<p><font face="Liberation Mono, monospace"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">barry@Backend-3:~$
</font></font> </p>
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<p><font face="Liberation Mono, monospace"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">Bet that also
shows some other potentially important permission
information!</font></font></p>
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<pre class="western">
That's likely your case and in the above output is wrong. Change
the Host IP address to localhost, as mentioned before.
Be sure to read this: <a href="https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Config.xml#Troubleshooting">https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Config.xml#Troubleshooting</a></pre>
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<p>Will. Had been avoiding getting help by Google as it
may screw up stuff you and Stephen have been
correcting. This is more specific.</p>
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<p>OK, so just changing /home/mythtv/.mythtv/config.xml
from <Host>192.168.0.3</Host> to using
127.0.0.1….</p>
<p> Same as with 192.168.0.3: goes to Country/Language
page, then scoots back to terminal.</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<p>Try <Host>localhost</Host>…. same
(Country/language)…</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<p>Reboot with <Host>localhost</Host>…..
same</p>
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<pre class="western"><a href="https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Config.xml#Troubleshooting">https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Config.xml#Troubleshooting</a></pre>
<h1 class="western">
Troubleshooting</h1>
<p><snip></p>
<pre class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0.2in">diff ~mythtv/.mythtv/config.xml ~/.mythtv/config.xml </pre>
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<p>diff ~mythtv/.mythtv/config.xml ~/.mythtv/config.xml</p>
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<p>Well, something to try:</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<p>barry@Backend-3:~$ diff ~mythtv/.mythtv/config.xml
~/.mythtv/config.xml</p>
<p>4c4</p>
<p>< <Host>localhost</Host></p>
<p>---</p>
<p>> <Host>192.168.0.3</Host></p>
<p>15a16</p>
<p>> <LocalHostName></LocalHostName></p>
<p>17d17</p>
<p>< </p>
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<p>~mythtv/.mythtv/config.xml has
<Host>localhost</Host></p>
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</p>
<p>~/.mythtv/config.xml has
Host>192.168.0.3</Host></p>
<p>so we'll edit that puppy...</p>
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<p>mythtv-setup</p>
<p>Ummmm.... screen flashed, didn't have time to see
anything then back to the usual Terminal windows and
closed.</p>
<p><br>
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<p>That didn't quite work as thought it would.<br>
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