[mythtv-users] after upgrade, frontend can't connect to backend?

Thu Sep 18 17:22:25 UTC 2014

Hoi Hika,

Thursday, September 18, 2014, 7:13:16 PM, you wrote:

> Hoi Ken,

> Thursday, September 18, 2014, 6:53:09 PM, you wrote:

>> Here's the log from start through the first attempt to connect to 127.0.0.1

>> FYI, the backend is 192.168.2.211 and the frontend is 192.168.2.212.  

>> 2014-09-18 11:49:02.015812 I  Setup Interrupt handler
>> 2014-09-18 11:49:02.015886 I  Setup Terminated handler
>> 2014-09-18 11:49:02.015915 I  Setup Segmentation fault handler
>> 2014-09-18 11:49:02.015943 I  Setup Aborted handler
>> 2014-09-18 11:49:02.015970 I  Setup Bus error handler
>> 2014-09-18 11:49:02.016000 I  Setup Floating point exception handler
>> 2014-09-18 11:49:02.016028 I  Setup Illegal instruction handler
>> 2014-09-18 11:49:02.016060 I  Setup Real-time signal 0 handler
>> 2014-09-18 11:49:02.016093 I  Setup User defined signal 1 handler
>> 2014-09-18 11:49:02.016121 I  Setup User defined signal 2 handler
>> 2014-09-18 11:49:02.016406 C  mythfrontend version: fixes/0.27
>> [v0.27.3-152-g926bb8d] www.mythtv.org
>> 2014-09-18 11:49:02.016430 C  Qt version: compile: 4.8.1, runtime: 4.8.6
>> 2014-09-18 11:49:02.016444 N  Enabled verbose msgs:  general
>> 2014-09-18 11:49:02.016481 N  Setting Log Level to LOG_DEBUG
>> 2014-09-18 11:49:02.028341 I  Added logging to the console
>> 2014-09-18 11:49:02.028530 N  Using runtime prefix = /usr
>> 2014-09-18 11:49:02.028588 N  Using configuration directory =
>> /home/kat/.mythtv
>> 2014-09-18 11:49:02.028905 I  Assumed character encoding: en_US.UTF-8
>> 2014-09-18 11:49:02.030347 N  Empty LocalHostName.
>> 2014-09-18 11:49:02.030379 I  Using localhost value of Myth2
>> 2014-09-18 11:49:02.030484 I  Testing network connectivity to
>> '192.168.2.211'
>> 2014-09-18 11:49:02.031562 I  Starting process manager
>> 2014-09-18 11:49:02.031673 I  Starting process signal handler
>> 2014-09-18 11:49:02.031937 I  Starting IO manager (read)
>> 2014-09-18 11:49:02.034924 I  Starting IO manager (write)
>> 2014-09-18 11:49:02.136486 I  New Client:  (#1)
>> 2014-09-18 11:49:02.136613 I  Added syslogging
>> 2014-09-18 11:49:02.173227 D  FindDatabase() - Success!
>> 2014-09-18 11:49:02.180131 N  Setting QT default locale to en_US
>> 2014-09-18 11:49:02.180332 I  Current locale en_US
>> 2014-09-18 11:49:02.180477 N  Reading locale defaults from
>> /usr/share/mythtv//locales/en_us.xml
>> 2014-09-18 11:49:02.333097 I  ScreenSaverX11Private: XScreenSaver support
>> enabled
>> 2014-09-18 11:49:02.335399 I  ScreenSaverX11Private: DPMS is disabled.
>> 2014-09-18 11:49:02.371939 N  Desktop video mode: 1920x1080 60.000 Hz
>> 2014-09-18 11:49:02.535408 D  Adding IPv4 loopback to address list.
>> 2014-09-18 11:49:02.535457 D  Adding IPv6 loopback to address list.
>> 2014-09-18 11:49:02.535575 D  Adding '192.168.2.212' to address list.
>> 2014-09-18 11:49:02.535662 D  Adding link-local
>> 'FE80::201:2EFF:FE2D:45F9%eth0' to address list.
>> 2014-09-18 11:49:02.536147 I  Listening on TCP 127.0.0.1:6547
>> 2014-09-18 11:49:02.536416 I  Listening on TCP 192.168.2.212:6547
>> 2014-09-18 11:49:02.536642 I  Listening on TCP [::1]:6547
>> 2014-09-18 11:49:02.536869 I  Listening on TCP
>> [fe80::201:2eff:fe2d:45f9%eth0]:6547
>> 2014-09-18 11:49:03.079282 D  MMulticastSocketDevice(:31): setsockopt -
>> IP_MULTICAST_IF 
>>                         eno: Cannot assign requested address (99)
>> cannot find libcec.solibcec.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file
>> or directory
>> 2014-09-18 11:49:03.308340 D  MMulticastSocketDevice(:31): setsockopt -
>> IP_MULTICAST_IF 
>>                         eno: Cannot assign requested address (99)
>> 2014-09-18 11:49:03.334164 I  Loading en_us translation for module
>> mythfrontend
>> 2014-09-18 11:49:03.350789 E  LIRC: Failed to connect to Unix socket
>> '/var/run/lirc/lircd'
>>                         eno: No such file or directory (2)
>> 2014-09-18 11:49:03.350955 E  JoystickMenuThread: Joystick disabled - Failed
>> to read /home/kat/.mythtv/joystickmenurc
>> 2014-09-18 11:49:03.363661 E  CECAdapter: Failed to load libcec.
>> 2014-09-18 11:49:03.363770 I  UDPListener: Enabling
>> 2014-09-18 11:49:03.365248 I  Binding to UDP 127.0.0.1:6948
>> 2014-09-18 11:49:03.365485 I  Binding to UDP 192.168.2.212:6948
>> 2014-09-18 11:49:03.365725 I  Binding to UDP [::1]:6948
>> 2014-09-18 11:49:03.366023 I  Binding to UDP
>> [fe80::201:2eff:fe2d:45f9%eth0]:6948
>> 2014-09-18 11:49:03.366216 I  Binding to UDP 192.168.2.255:6948
>> 2014-09-18 11:49:03.445390 I  Using Frameless Window
>> 2014-09-18 11:49:03.445411 I  Using Full Screen Window
>> 2014-09-18 11:49:03.460453 I  Using the Qt painter
>> 2014-09-18 11:49:03.884990 I  MythCoreContext: Connecting to backend server:
>> 127.0.0.1:6543 (try 1 of 1)
>> 2014-09-18 11:49:03.887818 E  MythSocket(7f942c0133a0:-1): Failed to connect
>> to (127.0.0.1:6543) Connection refused
>> 2014-09-18 11:49:03.888781 E  Connection to master server timed out.
>>                         Either the server is down or the master server
>> settings
>>                         in mythtv-settings does not contain the proper IP
>> address

> It seems it is missing the library libcec.so. I don't know what it
> does but it seems connected to creating the socket.

> Tot mails,
>   Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

I googled on that library, but it has to do with lirc (passing
commands over hdmi, I assume to turn od the tv).
The only other thing I can think of is that mythbackend is not running
on you backend machine.

Tot mails,
  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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