<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif;font-size:12px"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1420085944088_2962"><font face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">Hi all,</font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1420085944088_3530" dir="ltr"><font face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1420085944088_2981" dir="ltr"><font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1420085944088_8724" face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">i've been running mythtv for a long time, i know very little about Linux but I have got by so far by doing very little to the backend. So my backend has been running on a Ubuntu 11.10 desktop, but this is seriously out of date and unsupported.</font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1420085944088_3155" dir="ltr"><font face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1420085944088_3156" dir="ltr"><font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1420085944088_7932" face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">So I decided to update my system. I have a new SSD drive and I have loaded Ubuntu 14.04LTS and mythtv backend. After a number of problems I have the follwoing working:</font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1420085944088_3531" dir="ltr"><font face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1420085944088_3157" dir="ltr"><font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1420085944088_8730" face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">I can start the backend manually</font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1420085944088_3532" dir="ltr"><font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1420085944088_8731" face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">Mythfilldatabase seems to work</font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1420085944088_3533" dir="ltr"><font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1420085944088_8723" face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">Mythfrontend on the same PC is working</font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1420085944088_3534" dir="ltr"><font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1420085944088_7933" face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">My database restore worked and I can watch all my recording</font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1420085944088_3535" dir="ltr"><font face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1420085944088_3536" dir="ltr"><font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1420085944088_7934" face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">I have 1 more things to sort out</font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1420085944088_3537" dir="ltr"><font face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1420085944088_3538" dir="ltr"><font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1420085944088_8732" face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">Make mythbackend start on boot</font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1420085944088_3542" dir="ltr"><font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1420085944088_12951" face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1420085944088_3543" dir="ltr"><font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1420085944088_8733" face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">mythbackend does not start on boot</font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1420085944088_4122" dir="ltr"><font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1420085944088_7941" face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">I tried to follow the guide at <a id="yui_3_16_0_1_1420085944088_4123" href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Upstart_mythbackend_Configuration">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Upstart_mythbackend_Configuration</a></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1420085944088_4159" dir="ltr"><font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1420085944088_8734" face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">but my lack of linux knowledge has me stumped</font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1420085944088_4795" dir="ltr"><font face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">I did:<br></font></div><pre id="yui_3_16_0_1_1420085944088_4790" style="" class=""><font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1420085944088_10331" face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">ln -s /lib/init/upstart-job /etc/init.d/mythtv-backend</font></pre><div style="" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1420085944088_3543" dir="ltr"><font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1420085944088_7931" face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif"> but firstly I don't understand what this does, is <br></font></div><pre id="yui_3_16_0_1_1420085944088_4790" style="" class=""><font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1420085944088_7930" face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">/lib/init/upstart-job<br><br>just a generic script that comes with Ubuntu?<br><br>assuming this symbolic link is the correct thing to do should I now do something like<br>sudo update-rc.d mythtv-backend defaults<br><br>in any case I tried running <br>/etc/init.d/mythtv-backend</font></pre><div style="" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1420085944088_3543" dir="ltr"><font face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif"> and</font></div><pre id="yui_3_16_0_1_1420085944088_4790" style="" class=""><font style="" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1420085944088_9521" face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">/etc/init.d/mythtv-backend start<br><br>and <br><br>start mythtv-backend<br><br>but none of these actually starts the backend<br><br>I can manually start the backend by /usr/bin/backend<br><br>I do have a </font><font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1420085944088_9521" face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1420085944088_13942" class="" style="">/etc/init/mythtv-backend.conf</span> file it is slightly different from that shown in the wiki. It is the one that cam with my install of mythtv.<br><br>Another issue - when I run the backend setup and exit it asks if I want to start the backen I select yes and I am asked for my password which I give. but the backend does not start.<br><br>Any ideas of where I can go from here would be appreciated.<br><br><br></font></pre><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1420085944088_7063" style="" class="" dir="ltr"><font face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1420085944088_7064" style="" class="" dir="ltr"><br></div></div></body></html>