[mythtv-users] mythbackend & error

David Maher dm at netsol.com.au
Thu Sep 8 06:02:40 UTC 2005


I suspect your backend is already running as a service.This would make
port 6543 inaccessible, since it is in use already.
Try 
#/sbin/service mythbackend stop
#mythbackend &

On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 20:02 -0700, DSanchez wrote:
> Hello,
>    I just set up mythtv on fc4, i ran mythbackend and was able to
> configure the system.
> But after 2 daqys i tried to run "mythbackend &" and i get the
> following error.
> QserverSocket: Failed to bind or listen to the socket. Failed to bind
> to port: 6543"
> 
> Any ideas?
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