[mythtvnz] Mythbackend and Apache2 fail to start at boot

[Nick Rout]

On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Stephen Worthington
<stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
> 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.

This is the thread I was thinking of:

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/435419#435419