[mythtv-users] mythwelcome binds to same udp port as mythfrontend

[Raymond Wagner]

On 5/17/2012 12:32, Yianni Vidalis wrote:
>
> In the process I discovered that on a frontend that is started by
> mythwelcome, it cannot bind the udp port (for mythutil?) to 6948
> because it's already in use. I changed the port to 6949, exited
> mythfrontend and restarted it and it bound ok to the new port.
>
> Upon reboot, it complained that the (new) port is already in use

Port 6548 is the UDP port used by mythmessage. All applications that use 
the UI libraries will listen for messages on that port, which will 
trigger popups. When MythWelcome is used to start MythFrontend, 
MythWelcome has already taken that port, so the UDP listener in 
MythFrontend is unable to do so itself. When you changed the port and 
restarted MythFrontend, it now successfully listened on the alternate 
port, however when MythWelcome was restarted, it too listened on this 
alternate port, and you had the same problem you had as before.

If MythWelcome is going to stay along side the new idle behavior in 
MythFrontend, I'm going to have to add some mechanism to disable that 
when it launches MythFrontend.

> tcp      0      0 localhost:6546        *:*         LISTEN   3093/mythfrontend
> tcp      0      0 localhost:apc-6547   *:*       LISTEN   3093/mythfrontend
>
> By the way, why does it bind to "localhost" and not to the external ip?
> Is this why the networkcontrol doesn't work (I'm trying to use mythmote and it
> fails to connect).

Because you told it to. In mythtv-setup, you configured your servers on 
that hostname to only listen on 127.0.0.1. Change it to an externally 
accessible IP, or blank it to allow the control socket to decide on its 
own where to listen.