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

[Ray Olszewski]

At 10:41 PM 6/29/2003 -0400, Mike Miller 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?
>         thanks


This problem is unlikely be a router problem, since it reports the 
inability of mythbackend to bind to port 6543 on the host it is running on. 
External routers don't have much of an effect in intra-host communications.

Assuming the system has TCP/IP networking running properly, this most 
likely means that something else is already listening on port 6543. To 
check ...  "netstat -lp" will list the ports in use and what is using them. 
So you can see if 6543 is already used and if so, by what program.

The most likely suspect is another instance of mythbackend ... perhaps thet 
one that you "were running fine" ... but you haven't said much about your 
system , so that comes only as a guess.