[mythtvnz] Mythfrontend fails to connect to database

[Paulgir]

> This is almost certainly a network timing problem, caused by using the
> real external IP address of your box instead of localhost.  I fixed
> this by adjusting upstart's /etc/init/mythtv-backend.conf file to wait
> for the ethernet interface to be up instead of just localhost.  The
> Mythbuntu devs have attempted to fix this problem already, and their
> fix (the current "start on" line) works if you have simple networking
> where you only have one localhost and one ethernet interface on the
> box.  This is what they have in 12.04:
>
> start on (local-filesystems and net-device-up IFACE!=lo and started
> udev-finish)
>
> But if, like me, you have more than one other network interface (I
> have two ethernet cards and a bridged interface for using with VPNs),
> then that version does not work and you still need to customise it.
> What happens is that one of your other network interfaces comes up
> before the one that mythbackend runs on does, and that satisfies the
> "net-device-up IFACE!=lo" condition, allowing mythbackend to start. In
> the worst case (what I was getting occasionally) you can actually have
> mythbackend start before it should and shut down again due to not
> having a network interface.  More usually, it starts and does
> eventually find the network interface once it comes up, but
> mythfrontend does not see mythbackend in time and thinks it does not
> have a connection.
>
> To fix this, comment out the current "start on" line and replace it
> with this (if you mythbackend connects on eth0):
>
> start on (local-filesystems and net-device-up IFACE=eth0 and started
> udev-finish)
>
> I need to use this:
>
> start on (local-filesystems and net-device-up IFACE=eth0 and
> net-device-up IFACE=br0 and net-device-up IFACE=eth1 and started
> udev-finish)
>


Thanks Stephen.That appears to fix it.

Cheers -Paul