[mythtv-users] mythtv-backend service stops

[Jan Ceuleers]

On 11/15/2014 09:14 PM, Roger Searle wrote:
> Why does the backend service stop almost immediately?

In order to answer this particular question (which may help you to
diagnose the other issues you are facing), try running the backend
manually from the cli instead of by starting it as a service. As a test,
of course: I'm not suggesting that you always start the backend like
this from now on.

In order to make this test as relevant as possible, first find out how
(i.e. with which command-line options) the backend is being started by
looking at the relevant init script. On my 12.04 system, the following
incantation achieves this:

root at be:~# grep /usr/bin/mythbackend < /etc/init/mythtv-backend.conf
	LANG=$LANG exec /usr/bin/mythbackend --syslog local7 --user mythtv --daemon

So then, still as root, start the backend as above (except for the
--daemon bit) and watch its output:

root at be:~# /usr/bin/mythbackend --syslog local7 --user mythtv

The backend's output will tell you for sure, but I'll bet it'll start
working if you remove options such as --nologserver and --enable-dblog
if they are present. Because that's what happened to me recently
(without upgrading to 14.04; a recent update from 0.27-fixes broke my
backend in the same way as your report until I removed those options
from my init script).

HTH, Jan