On Sunday 15 January 2006 21:00, Nick wrote: > On 16/01/06, Jerry McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Nick, > > > > On Sunday 15 January 2006 19:55, Nick wrote: > > > When I've seem MythTV failing to start properly using init scripts > > > I've found that sometimes there is a /.mythtv folder with an > > > incorrectly setup mysql.txt file. During init, root's home directory > > > can be / in addition to /root, both of which can contain a .mythtv > > > folder containing the DB details. Fixing up the contents of the > > > /.mythtv/mysql.txt file fixed the DB connection details which had been > > > stopping the mythbackend from starting. > > > > After running updatedb/slocate I found exactly 3 mysql.txt files. I > > eliminated all but one and... it's still the same situation. > > Which one did you keep? I'd have cautiously kept all of them > (identical copies) before removing them if the problem persisted. >
I kept the one under /etc/mythtv. From strace output, this one gets referenced without problems. > > Thanks for the tip though. > > > > > Starting the process when the system had fully booted (when the user's > > > environment was going to be /root or /home/$MYTHBACKEND_USER) would be > > > fine because the mysql.txt files for these users were correct. > > > > This makes sense to me save one thing... Even after the computer is fully > > booted, try to execute the mythbackend script from a command line > > fails... But executing mythbackend as a program succeeds. > > > > It's not a real show stopper by far, just one of those things I can't > > fix... > > (probably nothing) Any chance that the extra "--" in the startup > command (between my >> <<) is causing a problem?: > > --background >> -- << --verbose ${MYTH_VERBOSE} \ > That ugly bit of bits is a separator for the start-and-stop utility... It caught my eye too... > Finally, have you checked the mythbackend log for entries before the > backend failed? I don't see any mention of this in the thread, but it > might contains very useful information, especially as the script can > be run with verbose logging. > Yes. The backend server stops before anything gets written to it... Once again, Cheers. Jerry _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users