[mythtv-users] Converting master to slave

[Tom Lichti]

Tom Lichti wrote:

> Greg Woods wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 19:54 -0400, Tom Lichti wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> I recently setup a second backend, and in testing I made it a master 
>>> server.
>>>     
>>
>>
>> In that case, when you set up the tuner cards, they were never put into
>> the database on your real master. That is most likely the reason why the
>> real master doesn't see them. While the master is up, try clearing and
>> re-creating the capture cards on the slave. After you do that, you will
>> have to restart the backend on the master for it to see the new tuners.
>>   
>
> That was done.
>
>> Also make sure that your mysql.txt files on the slave properly point to
>> the database on the master.
>>   
>
> So was that.
>
> However, I believe it was and ID10T/PEBKAC error. I didn't re-run 
> mythfilldatabase after setting up the cards. I only realized that this 
> morning when I got the cron email showing the daily mythfilldatabase 
> load, and it being roughly twice as big as usual.... ding-dong....
>
> I will check tonight to make sure it actually fixed the problem, but I 
> suspect that it did...

Well, that didn't fix anything. I still only have access to the two 
local tuners. Do you have to change anything on the master to enable slaves?

Tom