[mythtv-users] After upgrading to Fedora 16, many services won't autostart and I don't see them in the chk

[Gabe Rubin]

On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 10:36 AM,  <mythtv at hambone.e4ward.com> wrote:
>
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> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Gabe Rubin <gaberubin at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Jerry <mythtv at hambone.e4ward.com> wrote:
>> > On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Gabe Rubin <gaberubin at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I still can't logon to the webpage.  I am remote, so maybe I need to
>> >> try from inside the network to troubleshoot better, but I issued the
>> >> following commands:  "systemctl start httpd.service" and it seems to
>> >> be running:
>> >> [root at localhost ~]# systemctl status httpd.service
>> >> httpd.service - The Apache HTTP Server (prefork MPM)
>> >>          Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/httpd.service; enabled)
>> >>          Active: active (running) since Mon, 28 Nov 2011 09:49:58
>> >> -0800; 1min 25s ago
>> >>         Process: 5524 ExecStop=/usr/sbin/httpd $OPTIONS -k stop
>> >> (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
>> >>         Process: 5530 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/httpd $OPTIONS -k start
>> >> (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
>> >>        Main PID: 5531 (/usr/sbin/httpd)
>> >>          CGroup: name=systemd:/system/httpd.service
>> >>                  â 5531 /usr/sbin/httpd -k start
>> >>                  â 5533 /usr/sbin/httpd -k start
>> >>                  â 5534 /usr/sbin/httpd -k start
>> >>                  â 5535 /usr/sbin/httpd -k start
>> >>                  â 5536 /usr/sbin/httpd -k start
>> >>                  â 5537 /usr/sbin/httpd -k start
>> >>                  â 5538 /usr/sbin/httpd -k start
>> >>                  â 5539 /usr/sbin/httpd -k start
>> >>                  â 5540 /usr/sbin/httpd -k start
>> >>                  â 5541 /usr/sbin/httpd -k start
>> >>
>> >> Plus I see this in ps -A:
>> >>  5531 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
>> >>  5533 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
>> >>  5534 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
>> >>  5535 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
>> >>  5536 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
>> >>  5537 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
>> >>  5538 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
>> >>  5539 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
>> >>  5540 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
>> >>  5541 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
>> >>
>> >
>> > Could it be your firewall?  I recently installed FC 16 and sshd was
>> > allowed
>> > by default but I had to manually enable httpd.
>> > I ran /usr/bin/system-config-firewall from a terminal running X to
>> > configure
>> > it.  You could stop it for now from the command line to see:
>> >
>> > systemctl stop iptables.service
>> >
>> > Hope that helps.
>> >
>> > Jerry
>>
>> That was it!  I never even configured a firewall (I have a router, so
>> no need for a software one).  How do I make sure this does not
>> autostart?  Sounds like I have a lot to learn about systemctl.  The
>> joys of upgrading fedora is that there is always something new and
>> unexprected to learn about (this time systemctl and grub2, last time,
>> the new lirc, prior to that, blacklisting nouveau).
>>
> systemctl disable iptables.service
>
> /should/ take care of it, but what I did was to disable it from the
> graphical utility
>
> /usr/bin/system-config-firewall
>
> I want to enable it again but I haven't found the proper set of firewall
> commands to enable the mythtvbackend UPnP service.  Until then, I'll leave
> it disabled.
>
> I'm glad that worked for you.
>

Thanks!  I will see if this works when i restart.  A little scared to
do that right now.