[mythtvnz] Mythbackend and Apache2 fail to start at boot

[Nick Rout]

On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Steve Hodge <stevehodge at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Graeme Woollett
> <graeme.joy at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
>>
>> Since building a Lucid Myth machine, (when Lucid was still in Beta) I
>> have had a problem with mythbackend and apache2 not starting at boot
>> time.  mythtv-backend is sym linked to 'upstart-job'.  It starts fine
>> when '/etc/init.d/mythtv-backend restart' is called.
>>
>> I like to turn my machine off during the night and every so often in the
>> morning I forget to manually restart the backend, recordings are missed
>> resulting in low WAF.
>>
>> Does anyone know know to fix this?
>
> My guess is that you have to add it to the default runlevel somehow. I'm not
> sure how you do that with Lucid, with Gentoo it would be "rc-update add
> mythbackend default".

There is a bug in mythtbackend's ubuntu packaging to do with the move
to upstart. I saw a fix to delete some script, but damned if I can
find the post.

In the meantime a script in /etc/rc.local should fix it.