Mailing List Archive: Remote MythFrontend problems

Remote MythFrontend problems - pls help!

May 23, 2003, 10:02 AM

Post #1 of 5 (1234 views)

I am running mythtv-0.8 frontend and backend on an Athlon 1600+ running
RH9. Video card is Geforce 4 Ti 4200 (128Meg), capture card Hauppage
WinTv PCI. Sound is onboard via 686B (Alsa via82xx driver). I have
been very impressed with performance and usability of this project -
thanks for an awesome product!

I am experiencing difficulties trying to get a remote frontend box
running. The remote box is a Dell Latitude C800 (p3/850) running RH9.
I have installed all of the necessary components to satisfy Mythfrontend
dependencies. I have added an entry to /etc/hosts for my backend box
(mythbackend, 192.168.0.30) and have changed the first line of
/usr/local/share/mythtv/mysql.txt to read DBHostName=mythbackend.

I have verified connectivity to MySql from the client machine; can
successfully query tables in the mythconverg database.

When I run mythfrontend on the client machine, I receive the following
messages:

connecting to backend server:127.0.0.1:6543
Could not connect to backend server.

Obviously something is wrong here: mysql.txt has the backend database
set to "mythbackend", which resolves to 192.168.0.30; why is the client
trying to connect to localhost?

I have tried everything that I can think of to get this running; I used
the binaries compiled on my backend machine, the RPMs that are
available. I did a clean install of RH9 and built MythTV from scratch,
following the build instructions explicitly - same result in all cases.

I'm pretty sure I'm missing something simple here - this should be
working. Is there a way to get mythfrontend to spit out more verbose
startup messages?

At wits end - please help!

== Steve

Re: Remote MythFrontend problems - pls help! [ In reply to ]

mythtv at matter

May 23, 2003, 10:12 AM

Post #2 of 5 (1232 views)

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I think you also need to configure the IP of the backend machine using
either the setup program or the setup menu in the main myth program -
check the docs to be sure. It defaults to localhost (127.0.0.1) and you
need to set it to, in your case, 192.168.0.3. Don't mess with the port
numbers.

Larry

> I am running mythtv-0.8 frontend and backend on an Athlon 1600+ running
> RH9. Video card is Geforce 4 Ti 4200 (128Meg), capture card Hauppage
> WinTv PCI. Sound is onboard via 686B (Alsa via82xx driver). I have
> been very impressed with performance and usability of this project -
> thanks for an awesome product!
>
> I am experiencing difficulties trying to get a remote frontend box
> running. The remote box is a Dell Latitude C800 (p3/850) running RH9.
> I have installed all of the necessary components to satisfy Mythfrontend
> dependencies. I have added an entry to /etc/hosts for my backend box
> (mythbackend, 192.168.0.30) and have changed the first line of
> /usr/local/share/mythtv/mysql.txt to read DBHostName=mythbackend.
>
> I have verified connectivity to MySql from the client machine; can
> successfully query tables in the mythconverg database.
>
> When I run mythfrontend on the client machine, I receive the following
> messages:
>
> connecting to backend server:127.0.0.1:6543
> Could not connect to backend server.
>
> Obviously something is wrong here: mysql.txt has the backend database
> set to "mythbackend", which resolves to 192.168.0.30; why is the client
> trying to connect to localhost?
>
> I have tried everything that I can think of to get this running; I used
> the binaries compiled on my backend machine, the RPMs that are
> available. I did a clean install of RH9 and built MythTV from scratch,
> following the build instructions explicitly - same result in all cases.
>
> I'm pretty sure I'm missing something simple here - this should be
> working. Is there a way to get mythfrontend to spit out more verbose
> startup messages?
>
> At wits end - please help!
>
> == Steve
>
> _______________________________________________
> mythtv-users mailing list
> mythtv-users@snowman.net
> http://lists.snowman.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: Remote MythFrontend problems - pls help! [ In reply to ]

cedarmckay at mac

May 23, 2003, 10:14 AM

Post #3 of 5 (1190 views)

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try running setup again on the backend machine and replacing "localhost"
with the real ip address of the backend.

best,

Cedar

Steve Davidson wrote:

>I am running mythtv-0.8 frontend and backend on an Athlon 1600+ running
>RH9. Video card is Geforce 4 Ti 4200 (128Meg), capture card Hauppage
>WinTv PCI. Sound is onboard via 686B (Alsa via82xx driver). I have
>been very impressed with performance and usability of this project -
>thanks for an awesome product!
>
>I am experiencing difficulties trying to get a remote frontend box
>running. The remote box is a Dell Latitude C800 (p3/850) running RH9.
>I have installed all of the necessary components to satisfy Mythfrontend
>dependencies. I have added an entry to /etc/hosts for my backend box
>(mythbackend, 192.168.0.30) and have changed the first line of
>/usr/local/share/mythtv/mysql.txt to read DBHostName=mythbackend.
>
>I have verified connectivity to MySql from the client machine; can
>successfully query tables in the mythconverg database.
>
>When I run mythfrontend on the client machine, I receive the following
>messages:
>
>connecting to backend server:127.0.0.1:6543
>Could not connect to backend server.
>
>Obviously something is wrong here: mysql.txt has the backend database
>set to "mythbackend", which resolves to 192.168.0.30; why is the client
>trying to connect to localhost?
>
>I have tried everything that I can think of to get this running; I used
>the binaries compiled on my backend machine, the RPMs that are
>available. I did a clean install of RH9 and built MythTV from scratch,
>following the build instructions explicitly - same result in all cases.
>
>I'm pretty sure I'm missing something simple here - this should be
>working. Is there a way to get mythfrontend to spit out more verbose
>startup messages?
>
>At wits end - please help!
>
>== Steve
>
>_______________________________________________
>mythtv-users mailing list
>mythtv-users@snowman.net
>http://lists.snowman.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
>
>

Re: Remote MythFrontend problems - pls help! [ In reply to ]

cedarmckay at mac

May 23, 2003, 10:16 AM

Post #4 of 5 (1223 views)

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try running setup again on the backend machine and replacing "localhost"
with the real ip address of the backend.
http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-9.html#ss9.1
best,
Cedar

Steve Davidson wrote:

>I am running mythtv-0.8 frontend and backend on an Athlon 1600+ running
>RH9. Video card is Geforce 4 Ti 4200 (128Meg), capture card Hauppage
>WinTv PCI. Sound is onboard via 686B (Alsa via82xx driver). I have
>been very impressed with performance and usability of this project -
>thanks for an awesome product!
>
>I am experiencing difficulties trying to get a remote frontend box
>running. The remote box is a Dell Latitude C800 (p3/850) running RH9.
>I have installed all of the necessary components to satisfy Mythfrontend
>dependencies. I have added an entry to /etc/hosts for my backend box
>(mythbackend, 192.168.0.30) and have changed the first line of
>/usr/local/share/mythtv/mysql.txt to read DBHostName=mythbackend.
>
>I have verified connectivity to MySql from the client machine; can
>successfully query tables in the mythconverg database.
>
>When I run mythfrontend on the client machine, I receive the following
>messages:
>
>connecting to backend server:127.0.0.1:6543
>Could not connect to backend server.
>
>Obviously something is wrong here: mysql.txt has the backend database
>set to "mythbackend", which resolves to 192.168.0.30; why is the client
>trying to connect to localhost?
>
>I have tried everything that I can think of to get this running; I used
>the binaries compiled on my backend machine, the RPMs that are
>available. I did a clean install of RH9 and built MythTV from scratch,
>following the build instructions explicitly - same result in all cases.
>
>I'm pretty sure I'm missing something simple here - this should be
>working. Is there a way to get mythfrontend to spit out more verbose
>startup messages?
>
>At wits end - please help!
>
>== Steve
>
>_______________________________________________
>mythtv-users mailing list
>mythtv-users@snowman.net
>http://lists.snowman.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
>
>

Re: Remote MythFrontend problems - pls help! [ In reply to ]

smdavidson at belugasoftware

May 23, 2003, 10:35 AM

Post #5 of 5 (1225 views)

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Please disregard this post: I RTFMd and found the answer. (Thought it
was something simple)...I had to re-run setup on the back end and change
the master backend address from 127.0.0.1 to 192.168.0.30.

Thanks!

== Steve

On Fri, 2003-05-23 at 10:02, Steve Davidson wrote:
> I am running mythtv-0.8 frontend and backend on an Athlon 1600+ running
> RH9. Video card is Geforce 4 Ti 4200 (128Meg), capture card Hauppage
> WinTv PCI. Sound is onboard via 686B (Alsa via82xx driver). I have
> been very impressed with performance and usability of this project -
> thanks for an awesome product!
>
> I am experiencing difficulties trying to get a remote frontend box
> running. The remote box is a Dell Latitude C800 (p3/850) running RH9.
> I have installed all of the necessary components to satisfy Mythfrontend
> dependencies. I have added an entry to /etc/hosts for my backend box
> (mythbackend, 192.168.0.30) and have changed the first line of
> /usr/local/share/mythtv/mysql.txt to read DBHostName=mythbackend.
>
> I have verified connectivity to MySql from the client machine; can
> successfully query tables in the mythconverg database.
>
> When I run mythfrontend on the client machine, I receive the following
> messages:
>
> connecting to backend server:127.0.0.1:6543
> Could not connect to backend server.
>
> Obviously something is wrong here: mysql.txt has the backend database
> set to "mythbackend", which resolves to 192.168.0.30; why is the client
> trying to connect to localhost?
>
> I have tried everything that I can think of to get this running; I used
> the binaries compiled on my backend machine, the RPMs that are
> available. I did a clean install of RH9 and built MythTV from scratch,
> following the build instructions explicitly - same result in all cases.
>
> I'm pretty sure I'm missing something simple here - this should be
> working. Is there a way to get mythfrontend to spit out more verbose
> startup messages?
>
> At wits end - please help!
>
> == Steve
>
> _______________________________________________
> mythtv-users mailing list
> mythtv-users@snowman.net
> http://lists.snowman.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users