[mythtv-users] After 7y5m running, time to start from scratch after update to .27?

[Matthias Thyroff]

On 23.11.2013 07:31, Jan Ceuleers wrote:
> On 11/22/2013 10:16 PM, Matthias Thyroff wrote:
>> Hello everybody,
>>
>> sounds sad, after 7 years and 5 months running, with 1 year 8 months
>> recorded (I hope I havent watched that much TV, actually!), now it seems
>> that I have to start my backend from scratch, my backend is giving my
>> too much pain, and that started directly after updating to 0.27
>>
>> As reported earlier on this list (with more information than I want to
>> repeat here), there is the problem with the "mythcontext:backend is
>> online" messages, which indicate that the remote frontend is loosing the
>> contact to the backend appearently (but normally, no "is the backend
>> started?" messages). I thought this might be because of the xmltv data,
>> but I do not think that anymore, I do not know.
> Don't give up just yet.
>
> I'm not sure why, but bug #11873 [1] can also have slightly different
> symptoms than described in the bug report, such as those you mention.
>
> Have you set a proxy in the environment in which the frontend runs? If
> so, try unsetting it. That is:
>
> 1. close the frontend
> 2. open a terminal and type 'unset http_proxy'
> 3. from that same terminal, start the frontend (by typing 'mythfrontend')
>
> If you now do not have connection issues to the backend then you need to
> make the solution permanent. On my system this was achieved by adding
> 'unset http_proxy' to ~frontend/.profile (i.e. the file named '.profile'
> in the home directory of the user named 'frontend', which on my system
> is the user that runs mythfrontend).
>
> [1] http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/11873
>
> Jan
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Hello Jan,

thanks for your help. But I think my problem is different, I have 
checked and I do not have a proxy set,

Cheers,

Matthias