[mythtvnz] Mythbackend and Apache2 fail to start at boot

[Stephen Worthington]

On Sun, 16 May 2010 19:19:11 +1200, you wrote:

>On Sun, 16 May 2010 17:07:14 +1200, you 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?
>>
>>Thanks
>>Graeme
>
>Do you have a /etc/init/mythtv-backend.conf file for upstart?  This is
>what mine looks like in Mythbuntu 9.10:
>
># MythTV Backend service
>
>description     "MythTV Backend"
>author          "Matt Mossholder <matt at mossholder.com>"
>
>start on (local-filesystems and net-device-up IFACE=lo)
>stop on starting shutdown
>
>#expect fork
>respawn
>
>script
>        test -f /etc/default/mythtv-backend && .
>/etc/default/mythtv-backend || true
>        exec /bin/su -c "/usr/bin/mythbackend $ARGS" $USER
>end script
>
>And looking at that, I think I need to fix it a bit - it is waiting
>for lo to be up, but I have MythTV configured to use eth0 so I can
>access it from other frontends.

Oops, that got word wrapped.  The "test -f /etc/default/mythtv-backend
&& ." and the "/etc/default/mythtv-backend || true" bits are all one
line.