Comment 7 for bug 356789

So it appears that this actually is a duplicate, because when I went to generate clean log files on a fresh restart the database connection issues appeared again and the frontend said it couldn't connect to the backend.

However, the proposed fix from the other bug report ( https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-server-bugs/2009-February/009799.html which says to remove the "& wait" from the $NOHUP_NICENESS command in the /usr/bin/mysqld_safe script) seems to have fixed this issue and the root cause (the database connection errors https://bugs.launchpad.net/mythbuntu/+bug/358173) because now when I restart the backend starts up and the upcoming recordings show up.