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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>
                <p><br>
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                <p>barry@Backend-3:~$ cat
                  /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log | grep -i directory</p>
                <p><br>
                </p>
                <p>And extracting I see “Using configuration directory =
                  /home/mythtv/.mythtv” so looks like the other
                  config.xml’s are ignored.</p>
                <p><br>
                </p>
                <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>
                <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>
                <p><br>
                </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>
                <p><br>
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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>
                <p><br>
                </p>
                <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>
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      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>
                <p><br>
                </p>
                <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>
                <p><br>
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                <p><br>
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                <p><br>
                </p>
                <p>~mythtv/.mythtv/config.xml has
                  <Host>localhost</Host></p>
                <p><br>
                </p>
                <p>~/.mythtv/config.xml has
                  Host>192.168.0.3</Host></p>
                <p>so we'll edit that puppy...</p>
                <p><br>
                </p>
                <p><br>
                </p>
                <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>
                </p>
                <p>That didn't quite work as thought it would.<br>
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