<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Darethehair <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:darethehair@gmail.com" target="_blank">darethehair@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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This one is extremely subtle, and all my sleuthing skills have not
helped me so far <img src="cid:part1.02010605.09090506@gmail.com" alt="" title="Sad" border="0"><br>
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Running 0.25 on a fresh LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) server.
Local Backend/frontend work fine, and remote frontend also now works
fine. Noticed that install has set up automatic start for
mysql/mythtv-backend (verified by 'chkconfig') and scripts in
'/etc/init.d'.<br>
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However, upon rebooting, noticed that the remote frontend was no
longer able to connect to the backend, with non-helpful messages:<br>
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<pre style="min-height:36px">I MythCoreContext: Connecting to backend server: <a href="http://192.168.1.101:6543" target="_blank">192.168.1.101:6543</a> (try 1 of 1)
E Connection to master server timed out.
Either the server is down or the master server settings
in mythtv-settings does not contain the proper IP address
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Oddly, a remote 'mysql' connect still works, right owner is running
the processes, correct ports are open (verified by 'nmap'), so what
is the problem?<br>
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If I then <b>manually</b> restart mythbackend via the command line:<br>
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<pre style="min-height:36px">sudo /etc/init.d/mythtv-backend restart</pre>
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...then the remove frontend starts working again!<br>
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I have done a lot of Googling, but the problems I see only have to
do with <b>failures</b> of an auto-started backend -- in my case,
the backend starts up (mostly) fine.<br>
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Why would an auto-started backend not work with a remote frontend,
but a manually-started one does? If this some subtle timing issue?<br>
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Help would be appreciated! <img src="cid:part2.05060505.01060300@gmail.com" alt="" title="Smile" border="0">
</div><br></blockquote></div><br>To diagnose a timing issue, could you add a delay (60 seconds?) to the init.d script? The thing that comes to mind is a possible networking issue (binding to the wrong interface or something?)<br>
<br>Karl<br>