[mythtv] mythbackend and mythlcdserver broken at the moment?
Paul Harrison
mythtv at dsl.pipex.com
Tue Jul 1 21:12:44 UTC 2008
Isaac Richards wrote:
> On Tuesday 01 July 2008 4:20:43 pm Isaac Richards wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday 01 July 2008 3:51:42 pm Isaac Richards wrote:
>>
>>> On Tuesday 01 July 2008 2:36:51 pm Paul Harrison wrote:
>>>
>>>> There is of cause some easy fixes for this - change the default in
>>>> lcddevice.cpp to use 127.0.0.1 or a more generic fix would be to add a
>>>> special case in MythSocket::connect(const QString &host, Q_UINT16 port)
>>>> to check host for 'localhost' or maybe do a QHostInfo::fromName () if
>>>> the QHostAddress::setAddress() fails?
>>>>
>>> I'm planning on just adding a localhost workaround to
>>> MythSocket::connect. Or, maybe the hostname lookup stuff isn't broken in
>>> qt4 like the qt3 version was..
>>>
>> Yeah, it looks like we can use QHostInfo::fromName() - it's blocking and
>> doesn't involve the Qt event loop like the qt3 version did.
>>
>
> Does the attached patch work? I can't test at the moment.
>
> Isaac
>
Yes thanks Isaac - Changed everything back to use localhost and it is
working fine. I can see from the '-v network,socket' output the lookup
is working OK.
Paul H.
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