[mythtv-users] frontend fails

[Mike Perkins]

On 24/02/17 14:56, Greg Woods wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 7:36 AM, Greg Oliver <oliver.greg at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 1.  It only binds to localhost and never binds to the interface IP
>> even after it comes up.
>> 2.  All network tuners cannot be used until it is restarted and it
>> binds to the interface address.  Local tuners work OK.
>>
>
> This is more likely due to the fact that 16.04 uses systemd, rather than
> anything to do with Myth 0.28 . Is there a mythbackend.service file on your
> system? Does it contain a line like this:
>
> After=network-online.target mariadb.service mysqld.service time-sync.target
>
> Note that this is from a Fedora system. Ubuntu probably doesn't have all
> the services mentioned here, and the name of the network-online.target may
> be different. The important thing is that this tells systemd to wait until
> the network is online before starting mythbackend.
>
As a matter of interest, who actually created the mythbackend.service file in the first place? It 
doesn't seem to have been done by anyone with much knowledge of how mythtv works for most users.

Perhaps, instead of making a large number of users edit their config files, the correct incantation 
(or at least a more usable version) should be sent upstream.

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Mike Perkins