[mythtv-users] connection issue

[Daryl McDonald]

On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 8:19 PM, Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com> wrote:
> Two separate incidents Bill , the first bring my blunder, the second
> bring a reparation attempt. I'll make all the appropriate changes
> tomorrow. One side note, not that it effects m usage, but I no longer
> have live TV. I get "please wait for .25 sec and nothing else. The
> only reason I bring it up is because I wonder if it should be
> functional before an upgrade to 0.27?
>
> Daryl
>
> On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 8:05 PM, Bill Meek <keemllib at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 09/19/2013 06:10 PM, Daryl McDonald wrote:
>> ...
>>> After confirming that my regular 19:00 recording did start
>>>
>>> automatically, I've gone in and had a look at my "mythtv-backend.conf"
>>> file and it looks a lot like the one on the wiki. I would guess that
>>> adding "sleep 5" between "script" and "test -f..." would give the same
>>> fix, but in a more proper way?(my file below)
>>>
>>> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ cat /etc/init/mythtv-backend.conf
>>> # MythTV Backend service
>>>
>>> description     "MythTV Backend"
>>> author          "Mario Limonciello <superm1 at ubuntu.com>"
>>>
>>> start on (local-filesystems and net-device-up IFACE!=lo and started
>>> udev-finish)
>>> stop on runlevel [016]
>>>
>>> kill timeout 10
>>> respawn
>>> respawn limit 2 3600
>>>
>>> pre-start script
>>>      [ -x /usr/sbin/mysqld ] || exit 0
>>>      for i in `seq 1 30` ; do
>>>         /usr/bin/mysqladmin --defaults-file=/etc/mysql/debian.cnf ping &&
>>> exit 0
>>>         sleep .5
>>>      done
>>> end script
>>>
>>> script
>>> sleep 5
>>>
>>> test -f /etc/default/locale && . /etc/default/locale || true
>>> LANG=$LANG exec /usr/bin/mythbackend --syslog local7 --user mythtv
>>> end script
>>
>>
>> Correct. To be honest, it's a roll of the dice. Won't do any harm,
>> may not help. But, to test it, make sure your previously mentioned
>> hack is removed (stopping the BE and restarting it when the FE starts.)
>>
>> Yes, I remember when you did it from the command line, just not
>> that you put it in some FE startup script/config.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Bill
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That did the trick, BIG-TIME kudos to HP mini and Mr. Meek.  Daryl