[mythtv-users] Separate Frontend - New Install

[Ashu Desai]

On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 3:57 PM, Ashu Desai <ashu.desai at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 10:53 AM, Ashu Desai <ashu.desai at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 10:46 AM, Mike Perkins <
>> mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk> wrote:
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>>> On 04/08/17 16:28, Ashu Desai wrote:
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>>>> On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 9:46 AM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
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>>>> Hoi Ashu,
>>>>>
>>>>> Friday, August 4, 2017, 4:31:28 PM, you wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Guys
>>>>>> So I finally managed to get my BE up on a new CentOS 7.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> My FE:
>>>>>> * Zotac Ion with Nvidia
>>>>>> * 4 Gb RAM
>>>>>> * HDMI out
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I read the wiki and it seems to state that for the FE, I just need
>>>>>> to install " mythtv-frontend" package.
>>>>>> https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Installing_MythTV_on_Ubuntu
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> (I know it says Ubuntu, but I checked Debian wiki and it says same
>>>>>> thing. And there IS a mythtv-frontend package so I figured I was in
>>>>>> the
>>>>>>
>>>>> right direction)
>>>>>
>>>>> However, it crashes and gives segmentation fault when doing that.
>>>>>> It doesn't have the right IP and no config.xml file.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> https://pastebin.com/kCsFkPWP
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I created a config file under /etc/mythtv and here's the mythfrontend
>>>>>>
>>>>> log
>>>>>
>>>>> https://pastebin.com/hDn4QPYw
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Should I be installing the "mythtv" package as well?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> If you want to run a frontend on another machine then is running your
>>>>> backend, you have to adapt mysql/mariadb to listen on your ip-address.
>>>>> By default it doesn't. Check the WIKI on installing external
>>>>> frontends.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes, I did go to mysql -u -p root mythconverg and did the "grant all on
>>>> mythconverg.* to mythtv@"%" identified by "mythtv";
>>>>
>>>> This didn't work either.
>>>>
>>>> This is what I see
>>>>
>>>> 2017-08-04 11:16:55.819145 E  MythCoreContext::GetBackendServerIP(): No
>>>> address defined for host: localhost
>>>> 2017-08-04 11:16:55.827508 E  MythSocket(7faf6c094160:-1): Failed to
>>>> connect to (::1:6543) Connection refused
>>>> 2017-08-04 11:16:55.828350 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
>>>>
>>>> I copied the config.xml from my backend, changed the "local host name"
>>>> on
>>>> first line - still same error.
>>>>
>>>> That's not what was meant. You have to remove or comment out the
>>> "bind-address" line in the mysql/mariadb config.
>>>
>>> --
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>> I already have that commented out on the mythbackend...
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>> There is no mariadb on the FE
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> I finally made it to work - sort of. Somehow it doesn't create config.xml
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> SO i created one.
> However, I keep getting locked out every time it talks to the database (it
> seems)
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> Here's the debug file. Almost looks like my Zotac Ion is too slow - it's
> like it's freezing up.
>

https://pastebin.com/XzKSBdg4

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> I also seem to have lirc issue - I have a wireless keyboard connected to
> my FE, and my remote seems to work fine - it does left/right and play, etc
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