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

[David A Iacobellis]

That fixed the problem, now everything is working.  Thanks for the quick 
advice.

Dave


On Sunday 28 March 2004 01:23 pm, Bruce Markey wrote:
> 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