[mythtv-users] Re: Unable to bind to socket 6543

Bruce Markey bjm at lvcm.com
Sun Mar 28 13:23:08 EST 2004


David A Iacobellis wrote:

> Voyager:/usr/local/mythtv-0.14/setup # mythbackend
> Starting up as the master server.
> 2004-03-25 06:59:20 mythbackend version: 0.14.20040123-1 www.mythtv.org
> 2004-03-25 06:59:20 Enabled verbose msgs : important general
> QServerSocket: failed to bind or listen to the socket
> Failed to bind port: 6543
> Voyager:/usr/local/mythtv-0.14/setup # mc
...
> Does anyone have an idea why I cannot bind to the port?

The most likely cause is that a process is already bound to that
port and the usual suspect is an old mythbackend process. Try:

$ killall mythbackend

then try again.

--  bjm



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