[mythtv-users] ugraded to 0.29, cannot connect to backend

[Bill Meek]

On 05/28/2018 05:12 PM, Greg Woods wrote:
> I don't have any mythtv-setup logs. A sample mythbackend log can be found
> athttp:/www.gregandeva.net/mythbackend.20180525221030.14822.log.txt
> 
> The problem is illustrated by the first line containing "slave".
> 
> What I do have is some old database dumps, and it looks like Peter Bennett
> hit the nail on the head. The old database does not have a MasterServerName
> value in the settings table. The newer database, after unchecking and
> rechecking the "This is the master  backend server" box, does have this. So
> what hosed me up all along was that mythtv-setup was showing me that it was
> running on the master backend server, when in fact this was not actually
> set up correctly in the database. So whatever process upgrades the database
> between 0.28 and 0.29 appears to have missed this.

Thanks for the log. If you can get:

     MasterServerIP, BackendServerIP & BackendServerIP6

from a pre upgrade DB dump, that would help too. They're
used to develop the new MasterServerName in v29+.

-- 
Bill