[mythtv-users] mythbackend running, but nothing listening on 6543?

[Damian Haslam]

Here's a strange one,

recently upgraded to 0.22 on Ubuntu 9.10 - running mythbackend ok:
$ps ax | grep backend
27768 pts/2    S+     0:00 tail -f /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log /var/log/mythtv/mythexport.log
28874 ?        Ss     0:00 /bin/su -c /usr/bin/mythbackend --logfile /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log mythtv
28889 ?        S      0:00 sh -c /usr/bin/mythbackend --logfile /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log
28890 ?        R      0:00 /usr/bin/mythbackend --logfile /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log


but nothing is running on 6543:
$ sudo netstat -tunap | grep 6543
$

So of course, mythweb doesn't work (can't connect to the backend) and neither does the frontend ("is the backend running?")

Any ideas?

I've done the mythtv-setup stuff, everything is configured correctly as far as I can tell...

Oh, every 20 seconds or so, I get this in the mythbackend.log file:
2009-11-15 17:35:09.800 mythbackend version: branches/release-0-22-fixes [22594] www.mythtv.org
2009-11-15 17:35:09.888 Using runtime prefix = /usr
2009-11-15 17:35:09.929 Using configuration directory = /home/mythtv/.mythtv
2009-11-15 17:35:09.972 Empty LocalHostName.
2009-11-15 17:35:10.013 Using localhost value of jupiter
2009-11-15 17:35:10.056 Testing network connectivity to '192.168.2.100'
2009-11-15 17:35:10.116 New DB connection, total: 1
2009-11-15 17:35:10.160 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: 192.168.2.100
2009-11-15 17:35:10.189 Closing DB connection named 'DBManager0'
2009-11-15 17:35:10.224 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: 192.168.2.100
2009-11-15 17:35:10.265 Current MythTV Schema Version (DBSchemaVer): 1244
2009-11-15 17:35:10.301 MythBackend: Starting up as the master server.
2009-11-15 17:35:10.344 New DB connection, total: 2
2009-11-15 17:35:10.374 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: 192.168.2.100
2009-11-15 17:35:10.420 New DB connection, total: 3
2009-11-15 17:35:10.449 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: 192.168.2.100