[mythtv] commit cb1e2844 (Cause backend to terminate if requested IP address is unavailable) hangs BE

Stuart Morgan stuart at tase.co.uk
Sat Oct 6 11:52:55 UTC 2012


On Saturday 06 Oct 2012 11:03:20 Graham Chapman wrote:
> I have had the same issue when upgrading to 0.26.

I've pushed some fixes for these issues to fixes/0.26

> My backend also doesn't have IPv6 enabled. The BackendServerIP6 entry is
> greyed out in mythtv-setup, but shown as ::1 and was present in the
> database. It looks to have been added recently, either as a result of the
> 0.25 or 0.26 upgrade.

We now default to ::1 only if the address exists. If you have no IPv6 or not 
that particular IPv6 address (localhost) then it's set to blank instead. This 
fixes the catch22

> I must agree the error message (or lack of is very confusing), no
> indication of the problem, and the backend does not exit as the
> housekeeping thread is still running.

An error message is now shown and we will only exit if both IPv4 and IPv6 
addresses are unavailable.

-- 
Stuart Morgan
MythTV


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