[mythtv-users] Error on initial Backend startup

[Greg Foster]

On 7/14/05, Kevin Kuphal <kuphal at dls.net> wrote:
> John Craig wrote:
> 
> > Hi People,
> >
> > I am a newbie at this Myth deal (well actually this is my second
> > try).  I am receiving an error on the initial startup of the backend.
> > I searched the discussion board as well as I could for this one and I
> > have every message back to 11/2003.  Does anyone have any idea what I
> > need to do here?
> 
> Sounds like either mythbackend is already running or something else is
> listening on that port.
> 
> Do a "ps -elf | grep mythbackend" to see if another mythbackend process
> is running
> 
> Kevin
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Another option:

lsof -i :6543