[mythtv-users] Problems with Airplay / Airtunes

[Bill Meek]

On 01/06/2013 01:39 PM, Andréas Kühne wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am having problems getting the airplayserver to start on my frontend. In
> the mythfrontend.log the following repeats itself:
> Failed listening on TCP [fe80::e269:95ff:fe53:236c%eth0]:5000 - Error 9:
> The address is not available
>
> This port number then increases up till over 5010, and then the service
> seems to start, however the problem is that my iThings cannot connect to
> the frontend unless the services are running on port 5000 and 5100.
>
> If I restart the mythfrontend program the services start on the correct
> ports. I think my problem is with the IPv6 address not being initialized
> before the service tries to start. I have tried to set the IPv6 manually
> and also disable IPv6 entirely on the machine.
>
> I can't be the only one with this problem? Anyone have any ideas?

Hi;

I have a similar problem with my backend starting and have worked with
two other folks with problems like it.

Quick and dirty test: add sleep 5 (adjust based on timestamps in you log)
just before starting your FE. Are you running *buntu?

-- 
Bill