Re: confused by MythTV on buster

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Author: Janusz S. Bień
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To: dmo-discussion
Subject: Re: confused by MythTV on buster
On Sat, Aug 11 2018 at 9:26 +0200, marillat@??? writes:
> On 10 août 2018 19:28, jsbien@??? (Janusz S. Bień) wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>
> Hi,
>
>> I just upgraded, with some difficultiess, stretch to buster. By mistake
>> I removed MythTV packages (but not the configuration) and had to
>> reinstall them.
>>
>> Now the frontend connects to backend only if it is started from the
>> command line, the adress used is 0.0.0.0! When backend is started on
>> boot by systemd, the frontend is unable to connect.
>
> You must check what is going wrong (when the backend doesn't start) with :


Thanks for the suggestion.

>
> service mythtv-backend status
>
> journalctl -xa


--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
root@VivoPC-D8:/home/jsbien# service mythtv-backend status
bash: service: command not found
root@VivoPC-D8:/home/jsbien# journalctl -xa
-- Logs begin at Sat 2018-08-11 18:11:32 CEST, end at Sat 2018-08-11 18:15:05 CEST. --
Aug 11 18:11:32 VivoPC-D8 kernel: Linux version 4.17.0-1-amd64
(debian-kernel@???) (gcc version 7.3.0 (Debian 7.3.0-26))
#1 SMP Debian 4.17.8-1 (2018-07-20)
[...]
Aug 11 18:13:44 VivoPC-D8 mythbackend[1559]: mythbackend[1559]: I CoreContext mythcontext.cpp:971 (TestDBconnection) Start up failure. host localhost, status dbAwakeFail
Aug 11 18:13:45 VivoPC-D8 mythtv-backend[1068]: Cannot login to database
Aug 11 18:13:45 VivoPC-D8 mythtv-backend[1068]: Would you like to configure the database connection now? [no]
Aug 11 18:13:45 VivoPC-D8 mythtv-backend[1068]: [console is not interactive, using default 'no']
Aug 11 18:13:45 VivoPC-D8 mythbackend[1559]: mythbackend[1559]: C CoreContext main.cpp:132 (main) Failed to init MythContext.
Aug 11 18:13:47 VivoPC-D8 systemd[1]: mythbackend.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=130/n/a
Aug 11 18:13:47 VivoPC-D8 systemd[1]: mythbackend.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

mythtv-backend has no problem with login when started from the command
line.

Best regards

Janusz

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