[mythtv-users] Seriously need help fixing new setup
Michael T. Dean
mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Tue Nov 22 08:34:25 UTC 2011
On 11/21/2011 05:07 PM, R. G. Newbury wrote:
> On 11/21/2011 11:37 AM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>> On 11/20/2011 10:57 PM, R. G. Newbury wrote:
>>> On 11/19/2011 02:45 PM, steve wrote:
>>>> I can connect the mysql/mythconverg using the mysql command line
>>>> client. I opened up the settings table and had a look. Some relevant
>>>> entries are:
>>>>
>>>> BackendServerIP 127.0.0.1 mythtv
>>>> BackendServerPort 6543 mythtv
>>>> BackendStatusPort 6544 mythtv
>>>> SecurityPin 0000 mythtv
>>>> MasterServerIP 127.0.0.1
>>>> MasterServerPort
>>>>
>>>> I also deleted the ICEauthority per Mike's suggestion.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks to you both for the suggestions. This is frustrating, because I
>>>> have gotten MythTV working on two other setups in the past and strange
>>>> things are happening that AFAIK I am not causing.
>>> Hah! There is no hostname associated with the MasterServerIP setting.
>>> (Or is that a cut-n-paste error?)
>> That is correct--there shouldn't be a hostname associated with
>> MasterServerIP. And this is why we don't recommend directly editing the
>> database data, because if you change that, it will break all of MythTV. :)
>>
>> As I said--and as Geoff confirmed (and actually described how to fix) in
>> the other half of this thread--first step is to fix the host name change.
>
> "> That is correct--there shouldn't be a hostname associated with
> > MasterServerIP."
>
> Huh?? Interesting. I have four standalone myth setups atm (including
> the F16 setup presently being poked and prodded in a virtual on the
> laptop). All of them have a host entry for the MasterServerIP row (along
> with the IP address of course).
The point is that the MasterServerIP can /not/ be different on any of
the hosts--it has to be the same everywhere. It's a global setting so
the hostname should be NULL. If we stored it with a hostname, different
hosts could see different values for MasterServerIP.
> In all cases, the IP and hostname are
> also paired in the relevant /etc/hosts file.
>
> I have never directly entered the hostname into the db.
>
> I do admit to having *changed* it in a mass amendment when 'porting' the
> database from the home box onto this desktop. I got lazy and just
> grabbed everything on the home box and copied into place. After changing
> the 2 IP instances and all of the hostnames, myth was quite happy to
> start and run. It thought that the tuners and a lot of recordings had
> suddenly gone missing but was fine with that.
>
>
> Not that it makes any difference, but I am a little surprised. Having
> the IP address makes the name surperflous, while having the name inserts
> a dependency on their being a good /etc/hosts file, or a DNS server
> available. But both is belt and braces....??
MythTV doesn't rely on any form of external name-based address
resolution. All addressing of requests is done using data in the MythTV
configuration. However, MythTV /does/ rely on each host having a unique
identifier that we can use to store its settings/configuration--and we
use the host name, as provided by the system, unless the user creates an
override and specifies their own identifier.
Mike
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