[mythtv-users] Program Schedules: working or not? How to (re)configure?

[Stephen P. Villano]

On 9/25/13 4:31 PM, Leif Pihl wrote:
> below.
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> On Sep 25, 2013, at 2:49 PM, Eric Sharkey wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 2:44 PM, Leif Pihl <leif at pihl.us> wrote:
>>> Whenever the Front End starts up, I get this message:
>>>   Could not connect to master backend
>>>   MythContext
>>>   Could not connect to the master backend server.  Is it
>>>   running?  Is the IP address set for it in mythtv-setup
>>>   correct?
>>>
>>> This occurs when it starts from a entire system restart as well as
>>> immediately after I've been in the Backend Setup program.   And yea, the IP
>>> address is set to something like 127.0.0.1
>> I would guess it's probably not running.
>>
>> Sometimes you'll see this on boot up if stuff starts out of order.  If
>> you're able to start X and get the frontend up in less time than it
>> takes the backend to start, you'll see this message briefly, but then
>> it will connect up, usually within a few seconds.
>>
>> If you're seeing it after using mythtv-setup, it usually means you
>> shut the backend down before running setup (which you're always
>> supposed to do) but forgot to restart it after exiting mythtv-setup.
>>
>> You should always see it in your process list if it's running:
>>
>> mythtered% ps uax | grep backend
>> mythtv   13335  5.0  1.9 7166900 155896 ?      Ssl  Sep19 433:04
>> /usr/bin/mythbackend --daemon --syslog local6 --pidfile
>> /var/run/mythtv/mythbackend.pid
>> sharkey  31316  0.0  0.0   8056   904 pts/0    S+   15:48   0:00 grep backend
>> mythtered%
>>
>>
>> Eric
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> ES: 
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> Your words seem very straight forward, but I'm still not following several things... 
>
> [1]   How do I _JUST_ get the BackEnd started? 
>
> The only times I've ever before been able to start it is when exiting the BackEnd Setup program, and it asks me if I want to start the Backend  (duh, yea!)  
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>
> [2]   Are you referring to some program in particular, like the old X-window thing I heard of years ago, or when you say "X", are you using it as a generic variable?  
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> [3]   How do I...   "see it in the process list" ??? 
> Do I use verbatim the first line that you quoted: 
>    " mythtered% ps uax | grep backend " ??? 
>
>
> LP
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To see if it's running, you use:
ps aux | grep mythbackend

If it's not started, it depends on the linux distro you're using, but a
very, very common way is via init.d
/etc/init.d/mythtv-backend
Or a file very similarly named.
You can get the exact name of the init.d start script by:
ls /etc/init.d/myth*