[mythtv-users] db connection problems with remote frontend

Joseph Kennedy josephk at mac.com
Sat Oct 18 18:00:05 EDT 2003


Are you exporting the video directory on your master backend and 
mounting it on your frontend?  The files need to be available via an 
NFS share point.

On Saturday, October 18, 2003, at 01:39 PM, Chris Germano wrote:

> I'm trying to figure out what went wrong in my setup here. I have a 
> master
> backend/frontend (192.168.1.28) running a 2 week old CVS. I just setup
> another frontend on my laptop to test it out (last nights CVS). The 
> laptop
> has the mysql.txt file set to 192.168.1.28, and as the docs say I 
> changed
> the 127.0.0.1 in the ./setup on the master backend to (192.169.1.28).
>
> Now I launch the frontend, it connects, and allows me to browse through
> "watch recordings" list but with no preview. If I select a video and 
> hit
> enter, it won't do anything. Isn't it supposed to stream the video 
> over the
> myth TCP connection, hmm. The frontend console displays:
> ---
> Error: /home/chris/video/1005..nuv file not found
> Error: File Missing!
> ---
>
> Now if I hit "Watch TV" I get about 1 second of video and it just 
> freezes.
> The frontend console displays:
> ---
> 2003-10-18 10:33:37 Enabled verbose msgs : important general
> connecting to backend server: 192.168.1.28:6543
> Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'
> Over/underscanning. V: 0.020000, H: -0.010000, XOff: 0, YOff: 0
> Using XV port 69
> Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
> 2003-10-18 10:34:12 prebuffering pause
> ** Then it just freezes and I have to kill the video and frontend
> ---
>
> Also now I can't connect with MythWeb running on the backend itself, 
> and I
> haven't touched it out other than the ip changes I mentioned above in 
> the
> setup.
> ---
> Warning at 
> /usr/local/share/apache/htdocs/pvr/includes/mythbackend.php, line
> 71:
> fsockopen() expects parameter 2 to be long, string given
>
> Fatal Error at 
> /usr/local/share/apache/htdocs/pvr/includes/mythbackend.php,
> line 17:
> Unable to connect to mythbackend, is it running?
> The system administrator has been notified and the problem will be 
> remedied
> shortly.
> ----
> _______________________________________________
> mythtv-users mailing list
> mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
>



More information about the mythtv-users mailing list