[mythtv-users] Mythfrontend asks for country/language settings every time

[Jean-Yves Avenard]

On 11 December 2012 16:52, Phill Edwards <philledwards at gmail.com> wrote:
> Every time I start up my mythfrontend-only machine and it tries to connect
> to the standalone mythbackend it goes to the settings screens where it asks
> for country, language etc. I think I may have confused things by having an
> old mythfrontend which I called "mfe1" and then reusing that name when I
> replaced the old machine with a new one.
>
> I think the answer to this may be to delete the settings in the mythbackend
> database for "mfe1" hostname. Can anyone please advise? I'm worried that
> this may be a bit of a sledgehammer approach and miss an easier way of doing
> it.

I have this issue on one of my frontend where the network takes quite
a while to start (dhcp being slow). So the frontend gets started
before the network is active and you get that screen because it's been
unable to contact the backend.

I have a button set on my remote to restart mythfrontend for that when it occurs