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Author:  nico_06 [ Tue Feb 22, 2005 8:08 am ]
Post subject:  R5A10 mythbackend

Hi

I have Installed KnoppMyth R5A10, too.

It works great!

But mythbackend doesn't start at boot.

I must start it with mythbackend & after the boot.
Why?


Thanks!

Author:  masonjd [ Tue Feb 22, 2005 11:43 am ]
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I also experience this. Initially I thought it was because of a missing log file. I kept getting errors about not being able to access /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log. I created the file and then made it writable. The next time I booted mythbackend started up right away. But after that one time, I have had to start it manually. Not sure what to try next.

Author:  Xsecrets [ Tue Feb 22, 2005 2:18 pm ]
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check in /etc/rc5.d/ and make sure you have a file like S??myth??backend

Author:  masonjd [ Tue Feb 22, 2005 6:00 pm ]
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It is there:

S25mythtv-backend -> ../init.d/mythtv-backend

Plus when I boot I see messages about it starting so I think the problem happens after that. Other ideas or information I can give you?

Author:  sabre66 [ Tue Feb 22, 2005 8:06 pm ]
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Hi I had the same problem a simple
Code:
rm /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log

fixed it for me. I've now restarted my machine at least 20 times and it seemes to be working.

Author:  masonjd [ Tue Feb 22, 2005 9:53 pm ]
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So to fix it you had to remove the log file? But doesn't that give the missing log file error which also prevents the backend from starting?

Author:  tjc [ Tue Feb 22, 2005 10:14 pm ]
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At a guess the file had the wrong ownerships or permissions and deleting it lets be be recreated with good ones.

Author:  sabre66 [ Tue Feb 22, 2005 11:41 pm ]
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tjc wrote:
At a guess the file had the wrong ownerships or permissions and deleting it lets be be recreated with good ones.


That was my thoughts also , I tried changing permissions and ownerships to the original file but that still didn't work , messed around with the startup file blahblahblah . After looking through the startup file I noticed it was created after every reboot so in essense removing the original and letting the script take care of it properly seemed only logical .

BTW. This Knoppmyth is great , but getting to understand Debian is well...I wish it were Gentoo :oops: All joking aside great work to all involved.

Author:  nico_06 [ Wed Feb 23, 2005 3:23 am ]
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The script /etc/init.d/mythbackend started with no error.

But the mythbackend Server isn't running...

I think something is wrong with this script...

Author:  cecil [ Wed Feb 23, 2005 3:37 am ]
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Perhaps you should take a look at he log to see why the backend is dying? Perhaps starting the backend in and xterm and see what kills it?

Author:  nico_06 [ Wed Feb 23, 2005 4:44 am ]
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OK..

this is written in the log file:
2005-02-23 11:41:06.327 Unable to read configuration file mysql.txt
2005-02-23 11:41:06.331 Could not create ~/.mythtv
2005-02-23 11:41:10.209 Unable to read configuration file mysql.txt
2005-02-23 11:41:10.214 Could not create ~/.mythtv

then I created ~/.mythtv and the log says:
2005-02-23 11:42:05.296 Unable to read configuration file mysql.txt
2005-02-23 11:42:05.302 Could not open settings file /root/.mythtv/mysql.txt for writing

Author:  nico_06 [ Wed Feb 23, 2005 7:02 am ]
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I do this:

copy /usr/share/mythtv/mysql.txt to /root/.mythtv/mysql.txt

and it works!!!

Author:  nigelpearson [ Thu Feb 24, 2005 10:59 pm ]
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That is strange, because I thought the backend runs as user mythtv,
so shouldn't it be looking for /home/mythtv/.mythtv/mysql.txt ?

Author:  masonjd [ Sun Feb 27, 2005 8:23 pm ]
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I have a /root/.mythtv as well as a /home/mythtv/.mythtv and both directories have a fully accessible mysql.txt file in them. Yet I still receive the following errors in the log file.

Unable to read configuration file mysql.txt
Could not create ~/.mythtv

I can't understand why my machine would act differently. Any ideas?

Author:  cesman [ Sun Feb 27, 2005 9:43 pm ]
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/usr/share/mythtv/mysql.txt

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