[mythtv-users] Cannot get the backend to run

[Mike Perkins]

Michael Rice wrote:
> 
> Stuff that was got me in the past:
> 
> 1.  Software firewall.  Does it work with the firewall off?
> 
> 2.  Once I didn't heed the warning in my /etc/hosts file:
> 
> # Do not remove the following line, or various programs
> # that require network functionality will fail.
> 127.0.0.1               localhost.localdomain localhost masterbackend
> ::1             localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6
> 
That last one's a good'un. I've found under certain circumstances that my 
hostname gets reset to 127.0.0.1 after I've done certain tinkering with the 
network config. Make sure no system script has decided it knows better than you 
and check your /etc/hosts file every time.

Note that if you have more than one host (ie separate frontend and backend) your 
host names *cannot* map to 127.0.0.1 or they'll never connect.

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Mike Perkins