[mythtvnz] Backend fails to start

[Nick Rout]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 7:57 AM, Paulgir <paulgir at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 21:39:38 +1200, Brett <mythicalbeast at slingshot.co.nz>
> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 2012-04-16 at 19:45 +1200, Paulgir wrote:
>>>
>>> Since upgrading to 0.25 I have discovered that when the system boots I
>>> get
>>> a OSD message saying the FE
>>> can't connect to the BE and asking if the BE is running.
>>> I turn the system off each evening and it is a combined FE/BE setup.
>>>
>>> I can start the BE by going into BE setup and back out where it asks if I
>>> want to start the BE.
>>> The I start the FE and all is ok.
>>> The funny thing is I used to get the same message prior to upgrading but
>>> it didn't actually stop myth from
>>> working correctly.Now it does.
>>> I saw a post from someone experiencing the same problem but I can't find
>>> it again.
>>>
>> I used a modified upstart job from mythtv site to get 0.25 backend to
>> behave..
>> The existing 0.24 setup (on lucid 10.04) did not work for 0.25.
>>
>> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Upstart_mythbackend_Configuration
>>
>> note the specific 0.24 & 0.25 stuff.
>> note the exe path needs to be changed if compiled/installed
>> in /usr/local/bin.
>>
>> Brett
>>
> Thanks for the information.Unfortunately this is beyond my skills to know
> exactly what
> to do with it.
> Here are the contents of my mythtv-backend.conf :
>
> # MythTV Backend service
>
> description     "MythTV Backend"
> author          "Mario Limonciello <superm1 at ubuntu.com>"
>
> start on (local-filesystems and net-device-up IFACE!=lo and started
> udev-finish)
> stop on runlevel [016]
>
> #expect fork
> respawn
> respawn limit 2 3600
>
> pre-start script
>    [ -x /usr/sbin/mysqld ] || exit 0
>    for i in `seq 1 30` ; do
>       /usr/bin/mysqladmin --defaults-file=/etc/mysql/debian.cnf ping && exit
> 0
>       sleep .5
>    done
> end script
>
> script
>        test -f /etc/default/locale && . /etc/default/locale || true
>        LANG=$LANG /usr/bin/mythbackend --syslog local7 --user mythtv
> end script
>
>
>
>
>
> Do I use the entire text from the page you linked to,or do I need to add
> some thing to mine.
>
> Cheers

First see what is running on boot. Is mythbackend runnig at all?

You have the commands, use them.