[mythtv] Cannot connect to the mythzmserver

[John Pilkington]

On 20/12/14 15:34, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 12:51:48PM +0000, John Pilkington wrote:
>> With my recent 0.28-pre-2422 build (8 Dec) I'm getting a popup about
>> this when starting the frontend.  I don't use zm and haven't found
>> anywhere to make zm-specific settings.  An attempt to uninstall
>> mythzoneminder wanted to remove all of myth.
>>
>> I don't think I saw the popup with my previous build from 7 Nov.
>>
>> I can dismiss it with no apparent badness, but it's not
>> user-friendly. Comments?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> John P
>>
>> 2014-12-20 12:17:15.429256 I  Using localhost value of hpbox
>> ***********
>> 2014-12-20 12:17:17.213112 I  UDPListener: Enabling
>> 2014-12-20 12:17:17.213773 I  Binding to UDP 127.0.0.1:6948
>> 2014-12-20 12:17:17.213864 I  Binding to UDP 192.168.0.4:6948
>> 2014-12-20 12:17:17.214005 I  Binding to UDP [::1]:6948
>> 2014-12-20 12:17:17.214154 I  Binding to UDP
>> [fe80::2038:a1ff:feb5:609e%enp0s25]:6948
>> 2014-12-20 12:17:17.214254 I  Binding to UDP 192.168.0.255:6948
>> 2014-12-20 12:17:17.251125 I  UI Screen Resolution: 1024 x 576
>> 2014-12-20 12:17:17.342264 I  Using the Qt painter
>> ************
>> 2014-12-20 12:17:23.057829 I  Connecting to zm server:
>> localhost:6548 (try 1 of 10)
>> 2014-12-20 12:17:23.058727 E  No address defined for host: localhost
>> 2014-12-20 12:17:23.061389 E  MythSocket(31e54a0:-1): Failed to
>> connect to (::1:6548) Connection refused
>> *********
>> 2014-12-20 12:17:27.574048 E  MythSocket(3212000:-1): Failed to
>> connect to (::1:6548) Connection refused
>> 2014-12-20 12:17:28.075924 E  Unable to initialize plugin 'mythzoneminder'.
>> 2014-12-20 12:17:28.146214 N  Found mainmenu.xml for theme 'MythCenter-wide'
>
> Why does your machine not know what 'localhost' means?  Did you break
> the /etc/hosts entry for localhost?

[john at HP_Box SRPMS]$ cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1   localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 
localhost4.localdomain4
::1         localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6 
localhost6.localdomain6
[john at HP_Box SRPMS]$ hostname
HP_Box
[john at HP_Box SRPMS]$

I supposed it had something to do with the 'hpbox' defined in config.xml