[mythtvnz] Mythfrontend fails to connect to database

Nick Rout nick.rout at gmail.com
Fri Jul 26 06:38:23 BST 2013


On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 5:35 PM, Stephen Worthington <
stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:

> On Fri, 26 Jul 2013 17:30:28 +1200, you wrote:
>
> >On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Stephen Worthington <
> >stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
> >
> >> On Fri, 26 Jul 2013 08:42:42 +1200, you wrote:
> >>
> >> >On Fri, 19 Jul 2013 13:44:48 +1200, Stephen Worthington
> >> ><stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> On Fri, 19 Jul 2013 07:58:07 +1200, you wrote:
> >>
> >
> >Don't make it complicated. In ubuntu mythfrontend is a wrapper script that
> >starts the mythfrontend binary, which ubuntu rename to mythfrontend.real.
> >
> >Put the delay in /usr/bin/mythtfrontend.
>
> I thought of that, but if you put the delay in there, then you will
> get the delay every time you start mythfrontend, rather than only at
> system startup.
>

True, that would be annoying. But on a perfect system you'd never restart
anyway :)

Putting a delay in there would at least prove what is needed, and OP could
move to a more sophisticated fix later?
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