[mythtv-users] failed to bind to port 6543 on mythbackend startup?

Will Dormann wd at pobox.com
Mon Jun 30 00:12:41 EDT 2003


At 10:41 PM 6/29/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>I was running mythbackend fine, now im getting this error, im positive
>it has to do with my router (d-link di-604) I opened up this port for
>this address however that doesn't seem to have fixed it, any ideas,
>anyone else have any firewall issues?


No, it has nothing to do with your router.   Some process has already bound
to port 6543 on your system.  Another instance of mythbackend perhaps?
This command should tell you what the process is
fuser -v -n tcp 6543


-WD


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