[mythtv-users] Brand new install - Mythbackend doesn't start

Ashu Desai ashu.desai at gmail.com
Sun Jul 30 16:21:24 UTC 2017


On Sat, Jul 29, 2017 at 7:12 PM, DryHeat122 . <dryheat122 at gmail.com> wrote:

> IDK about a zero card backend, but I would investigate
>
> 170729 15:51:26 [Note] Hostname 'mythmaster.localdomain' does not resolve
> to '172.16.10.188'.
> 170729 15:51:26 [Note] Hostname 'mythmaster.localdomain' has the following
> IP addresses:
> 170729 15:51:26 [Note]  - ::1%1
>
> Backend does not like IP address confusion.
>

That is exactly what I am trying to troubleshoot. I looked at the database,

Here's the output:

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| ImageTransitionType               | 1                               |
NULL                   |
| ImageTransitionTime               | 1000                            |
NULL                   |
| BackendServerIP                   | 172.16.10.188                      |
mythmaster.localdomain |
| AllowLinkLocal                    | 1                               |
mythmaster.localdomain |
| BackendServerPort                 | 6543                            |
mythmaster.localdomain |
| BackendStatusPort                 | 6544                            |
mythmaster.localdomain |
| MasterServerIP                    | 172.16.10.188                      |
NULL                   |
| MasterServerPort                  | 6543                            |
NULL                   |
| MasterBackendOverride             | 1                               |
NULL                   |
| DeletesFollowLinks                | 0                               |
NULL                   |
| TruncateDeletesSlowly             | 0                               |
mythmaster.localdomain |
| HDRingbufferSize                  | 9400                            |
NULL                   |
| StorageScheduler                  | BalancedFreeSpace               |
NULL                   |
| UPnP/WMPSource                    | 0                               |
NULL                   |
| DisableAutomaticBackup            | 0                               |
NULL                   |
| DisableFirewireReset              | 0                               |
mythmaster.localdomain |
| EITTransportTimeout               | 5                               |
NULL                   |
| EITCrawIdleStart                  | 60                              |
NULL                   |

-----------------------
I don't see anywhere during mythtv-setup or on frontend setup either where
the IP is not given that would say 0.0.0.0

Personally I think this is what is causing it - but can't seem to figure
out where to look for it.


> Also check the log to find out which config.xml is being used. It can
> exist in like three different places, but only one is actually used. One on
> of my systems it's in /etc/mythtv and on another it's in
> /home/[username]/.mythtv
>

the /var/log/messages say it's using

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Jul 30 11:16:50 mythmaster systemd: Started MythTV backend service.
Jul 30 11:16:50 mythmaster systemd: Starting MythTV backend service...
Jul 30 11:16:51 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-07-30 11:16:50.924896 C
 mythbackend version: fixes/0.28 [v28.0-35-g812ec08] www.mythtv.org
Jul 30 11:16:51 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-07-30 11:16:50.924912 C  Qt
version: compile: 5.6.1, runtime: 5.6.1
Jul 30 11:16:51 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-07-30 11:16:50.924914 N
 Enabled verbose msgs:  general
Jul 30 11:16:51 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-07-30 11:16:50.924968 N
 Setting Log Level to LOG_INFO
Jul 30 11:16:51 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-07-30 11:16:50.935825 I  Added
logging to the console
Jul 30 11:16:51 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-07-30 11:16:50.936057 I  Setup
Interrupt handler
Jul 30 11:16:51 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-07-30 11:16:50.936061 I  Setup
Terminated handler
Jul 30 11:16:51 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-07-30 11:16:50.936064 I  Setup
Segmentation fault handler
Jul 30 11:16:51 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-07-30 11:16:50.936066 I  Setup
Aborted handler
Jul 30 11:16:51 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-07-30 11:16:50.936069 I  Setup
Bus error handler
Jul 30 11:16:51 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-07-30 11:16:50.936073 I  Setup
Floating point exception handler
Jul 30 11:16:51 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-07-30 11:16:50.936075 I  Setup
Illegal instruction handler
Jul 30 11:16:51 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-07-30 11:16:50.936081 I  Setup
Real-time signal 0 handler
Jul 30 11:16:51 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-07-30 11:16:50.936084 I  Setup
Hangup handler
Jul 30 11:16:51 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-07-30 11:16:50.936107 N  Read
conf dir = /etc/mythtv
Jul 30 11:16:51 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-07-30 11:16:50.936131 N  Using
runtime prefix = /usr
Jul 30 11:16:51 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-07-30 11:16:50.936132 N  Using
configuration directory = /etc/mythtv
Jul 30 11:16:51 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-07-30 11:16:50.936175 I
 Assumed character encoding: en_US.UTF-8
Jul 30 11:16:51 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-07-30 11:16:50.936412 N  Empty
LocalHostName.
Jul 30 11:16:51 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-07-30 11:16:50.936417 I  Using
localhost value of mythmaster.localdomain
Jul 30 11:16:51 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-07-30 11:16:50.943621 N
 Setting QT default locale to en_US
Jul 30 11:16:51 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-07-30 11:16:50.943628 I
 Current locale en_US
Jul 30 11:16:51 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-07-30 11:16:50.943653 N
 Reading locale defaults from /usr/share/mythtv//locales/en_us.xml
Jul 30 11:16:51 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-07-30 11:16:50.947643 I
 Loading en_us translation for module mythfrontend
Jul 30 11:16:51 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-07-30 11:16:50.953134 I
 Current MythTV Schema Version (DBSchemaVer): 1344
Jul 30 11:16:51 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-07-30 11:16:50.953377 I
 Loading en_us translation for module mythfrontend
Jul 30 11:16:51 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-07-30 11:16:50.954626 N
 MythBackend: Starting up as the master server.
Jul 30 11:16:51 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-07-30 11:16:50.955318 W
 MythBackend: No valid capture cards are defined in the database.
Jul 30 11:16:51 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-07-30 11:16:50.955618 E
 Scheduler: No capture cards are defined in the database.
Jul 30 11:16:51 mythmaster mythbackend: Perhaps you should re-read the
installation instructions?
Jul 30 11:16:51 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-07-30 11:16:51.036408 I  Added
logging to /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.20170730161650.25258.log
Jul 30 11:16:51 mythmaster mythbackend: 2017-07-30 11:16:51.128501 I
 Removed logging to /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.20170730161650.25258.log
Jul 30 11:16:51 mythmaster systemd: mythbackend.service: main process
exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Jul 30 11:16:51 mythmaster systemd: Unit mythbackend.service entered failed
state.
Jul 30 11:16:51 mythmaster systemd: mythbackend.service failed.

----------------------

Not sure what seems to be causing it.




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