[mythtvnz] mythtvnz Digest, Vol 85, Issue 15

[Alex Marshall]

On 23/09/14 23:00, mythtvnz-request at lists.linuxnut.co.nz wrote:
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>     1. Re: Network not starting? (Paulgir)
>     2. Re: Network not starting? (Paulgir)
>     3. Re: Network not starting? (Robin Gilks)
>     4. Re: Network not starting? (Criggie)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 08:16:25 +1200
> From: Paulgir <paulgir at gmail.com>
> To: "MythTV in NZ" <mythtvnz at lists.linuxnut.co.nz>
> Subject: Re: [mythtvnz] Network not starting?
> Message-ID: <op.xmlulncsw14o5f at paul-p5k-se>
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> On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 15:47:56 +1200, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Paulgir <paulgir at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 11:13:06 +1200, Robin Gilks <g8ecj at gilks.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Greetings all
>>>>
>>>> I decided to go for the X-26Y Celeron box and have a Mythbuntu-14.04
>>>> frontend only installed and running OK most of the time!!
>>>>
>>>> I power the box down overnight and when I next start it up it looks
>>>> like
>>>> the network isn't starting because I get the language dialog displayed.
>>>>
>>>> If I soft-stop using the power button and then immediately start it up
>>>> again, everything works fine.
>>>>
>>>> Is this a scenario familiar to anyone? Not sure yet whether its the
>>>> network not starting at all (I can't ssh in whilst the language dialog
>>>> is
>>>> up) or its just that the frontend starts before the network.
>>>>
>>>> Obviously more diagnostics to be done but I wondered if anyone else has
>>>> something from this family of Intel SOC and had 'interesting'
>>>> behaviour :)
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>>
>>> This is exactly what happens if my modem/router is off.I found that the
>>> router takes too long to boot for it to come up in time for
>>> Mythbuntu.So I
>>> have the modem/router on another circuit,on all that time.
>>>
>>> Paul
>> Why would you ever turn your router off?
>>
>> In my household everything would fail. Lighting control, TV/media
>> setup, radio (from internet streams), data to mobile phones...
> Apparently,I'm not a slave to gadget acquisitionitis
>
> Paul
>
>
>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 08:19:09 +1200
> From: Paulgir <paulgir at gmail.com>
> To: "MythTV in NZ" <mythtvnz at lists.linuxnut.co.nz>
> Subject: Re: [mythtvnz] Network not starting?
> Message-ID: <op.xmlup7qqw14o5f at paul-p5k-se>
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> On Tue, 23 Sep 2014 08:16:25 +1200, Paulgir <paulgir at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 15:47:56 +1200, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Paulgir <paulgir at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 11:13:06 +1200, Robin Gilks <g8ecj at gilks.org>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Greetings all
>>>>>
>>>>> I decided to go for the X-26Y Celeron box and have a Mythbuntu-14.04
>>>>> frontend only installed and running OK most of the time!!
>>>>>
>>>>> I power the box down overnight and when I next start it up it looks
>>>>> like
>>>>> the network isn't starting because I get the language dialog
>>>>> displayed.
>>>>>
>>>>> If I soft-stop using the power button and then immediately start it up
>>>>> again, everything works fine.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is this a scenario familiar to anyone? Not sure yet whether its the
>>>>> network not starting at all (I can't ssh in whilst the language
>>>>> dialog is
>>>>> up) or its just that the frontend starts before the network.
>>>>>
>>>>> Obviously more diagnostics to be done but I wondered if anyone else
>>>>> has
>>>>> something from this family of Intel SOC and had 'interesting'
>>>>> behaviour :)
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers
>>>>>
>>>> This is exactly what happens if my modem/router is off.I found that the
>>>> router takes too long to boot for it to come up in time for
>>>> Mythbuntu.So I
>>>> have the modem/router on another circuit,on all that time.
>>>>
>>>> Paul
>>> Why would you ever turn your router off?
>>>
>>> In my household everything would fail. Lighting control, TV/media
>>> setup, radio (from internet streams), data to mobile phones...
>> Apparently,I'm not a slave to gadget acquisitionitis
>>
>> Paul
> 38 years as an electronics technician must have immunised me.
>
>
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 08:23:45 +1200
> From: "Robin Gilks" <g8ecj at gilks.org>
> To: "MythTV in NZ" <mythtvnz at lists.linuxnut.co.nz>
> Subject: Re: [mythtvnz] Network not starting?
> Message-ID: <14b156c4a2ecb743cb10692df8a86254.squirrel at gilks.ath.cx>
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>
>> It is almost certainly the front end starting before the network.
>>
>> There is mythfrontend script in mythbuntu that starts
>> mythfrontend.real (ie the binary usuallly called mythfrontend). You
>> can put a delay in there, although watch over writing during updates.
>>
>> Personally I just escape out of the language box and mythfrontend
>> stops and restarts itself, by then the network is up.
>>
> OK - I've verified that it is the frontend coming up before the network so
> I've added the following into the mythfrontend.sh script to ensure the
> network is up.
>
>      until [ `cat /sys/class/net/eth0/operstate` = 'up' ]
>      do
>          sleep 1
>      done
>
> The name of the interface may change according to udev rules so best to
> check with ifconfig what your's is called!!
>
Thanks for that information I have the same problem on my Celeron 
powered front-end and have just been pressing escape twice but I will 
implement this instead,