[mythtvnz] local and master backend settings

[Nick Rout]

On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 9:21 AM, Roger Searle <roger.searle at gmail.com> wrote:
> This will teach me... I have messed up my FE/BE setup by thinking I
> could set up a static IP address on the box and putting that address in
> the backend general settings page.  The FE wouldn't then run so I set
> about trying to go back, and have the local backend and master backend
> both as 127.0.0.1 in the BE general settings screen.


This works but you will be sorry when you go to run a remote frontend.

But in your present case your quickest fix is to set the backend back
to 127.0.0.1. Run mythtv-setup.

> Here's some of the
> output from running the frontend from a terminal, seems I've got
> multiple database connection attempts too, any assistance would be
> appreciated:
>
> roger at gemini ~/.mythtv $ mythfrontend
> 2011-09-18 08:59:24.017 mythfrontend version: fixes/0.24
> [v0.24-243-g9ba3ece] www.mythtv.org
> 2011-09-18 08:59:24.017 Using runtime prefix = /usr
> 2011-09-18 08:59:24.017 Using configuration directory = /home/roger/.mythtv
>
> 2011-09-18 08:59:24.783 Using localhost value of gemini
> 2011-09-18 08:59:24.800 New DB connection, total: 1
> 2011-09-18 08:59:24.806 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
> 127.0.0.1
>
> 2011-09-18 08:59:25.589 New DB connection, total: 2
> 2011-09-18 08:59:25.589 New DB connection, total: 3
> 2011-09-18 08:59:25.590 New DB connection, total: 4
> 2011-09-18 08:59:25.590 Current MythTV Schema Version (DBSchemaVer): 1264
> 2011-09-18 08:59:25.590 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
> 127.0.0.1
> 2011-09-18 08:59:25.590 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
> 127.0.0.1
> 2011-09-18 08:59:25.591 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
> 127.0.0.1
>
> 2011-09-18 08:59:26.652 MythCoreContext: Connecting to backend server:
> 127.0.0.1:6543 (try 1 of 1)
> 2011-09-18 08:59:26.652 Connection to master server timed out.
>             Either the server is down or the master server settings
>             in mythtv-settings does not contain the proper IP address
>
> 2011-09-18 08:59:26.652 Unable to determine master backend time zone
> settings.  If those settings differ from local settings, some
> functionality will fail.
> 2011-09-18 08:59:35.033 MythCoreContext: Connecting to backend server:
> 127.0.0.1:6543 (try 1 of 1)
> 2011-09-18 08:59:35.033 Connection to master server timed out.
>             Either the server is down or the master server settings
>             in mythtv-settings does not contain the proper IP address
>
> Cheers,
> Roger
>
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