Mythbuntu 910 LCDServerHost missing from mythconverg.

[Stephen Goodey]

Hello,

Wonder if I could mention a problem that I and a few other people have found.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8265169#post8265169
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/406160
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/406255#406255

Apparently fixed here in 2008.

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/340246

To get a display to talk to mythlcdserver an entry for LCDServerHost needs to be added to mythconverg. The display shows the time/date OK but not anything else. To fix it I needed to

mysql> insert into settings (value,data,hostname) values ('LCDServerHost','127.0.0.1','Mythbuntu910');

Obviously Mythbuntu910 is specific to me.

Thanks, Regards, Steve.

[MarcRandolph (mrand)]

Howdy, and thank you for helping to improve Mythbuntu by opening this ticket, and especiall for including a solution!

[Douglas Mackay (o-launchpad-mackayd-co-uk)]

Hi,

Setting LCDServerHost in the database shouldn't be needed the default value of localhost should work fine. Looking at the mythfrontend -v network,socket log :-

2009-10-18 21:57:50.060 Enabled verbose msgs: important general network socket
2009-10-18 21:57:50.085 Starting mythlcdserver
2009-10-18 21:57:50.610 Connecting to lcd server: localhost:6545 (try 1 of 10)
2009-10-18 21:57:50.610 MythSocket(bbc350:23): new socket
2009-10-18 21:57:50.611 MythSocketThread: readyread thread start
2009-10-18 21:57:50.611 MythSocket(bbc350:23): UpRef: 1
2009-10-18 21:57:50.612 MythSocket(bbc350:23): attempting connect() to
(0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1:6545)
2009-10-18 21:57:50.612 MythSocket(bbc350:23): connect() failed (InternalError)
2009-10-18 21:57:51.112 Connecting to lcd server: localhost:6545 (try 2 of 10)
2009-10-18 21:57:51.112 MythSocket(bbc350:23): DownRef: 0
2009-10-18 21:57:51.113 MythSocket(bcf730:21): new socket
2009-10-18 21:57:51.113 MythSocket(bcf730:21): UpRef: 1
2009-10-18 21:57:51.113 MythSocket(bcf730:21): attempting connect() to
(0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1:6545)
2009-10-18 21:57:51.113 MythSocket(bcf730:21): connect() failed (InternalError)

The localhost lookup is returning the ipv6 localhost address 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1 which is then causing the connection to fail. Not sure if this is an Ubuntu or Mythtv bug so I've also reported it here http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/7516

[Stephen Goodey (stephen-goodey)]

Thanks Douglas, your help sorted it for me. Onto the next problem.

Steve

On Sunday 08 Nov 2009 10:31:52 Douglas Mackay wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Setting LCDServerHost in the database shouldn't be needed the default
> value of localhost should work fine. Looking at the mythfrontend -v
> network,socket log :-
>
> 2009-10-18 21:57:50.060 Enabled verbose msgs: important general network
> socket 2009-10-18 21:57:50.085 Starting mythlcdserver
> 2009-10-18 21:57:50.610 Connecting to lcd server: localhost:6545 (try 1 of
> 10) 2009-10-18 21:57:50.610 MythSocket(bbc350:23): new socket
> 2009-10-18 21:57:50.611 MythSocketThread: readyread thread start
> 2009-10-18 21:57:50.611 MythSocket(bbc350:23): UpRef: 1
> 2009-10-18 21:57:50.612 MythSocket(bbc350:23): attempting connect() to
> (0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1:6545)
> 2009-10-18 21:57:50.612 MythSocket(bbc350:23): connect() failed
> (InternalError) 2009-10-18 21:57:51.112 Connecting to lcd server:
> localhost:6545 (try 2 of 10) 2009-10-18 21:57:51.112 MythSocket(bbc350:23):
> DownRef: 0
> 2009-10-18 21:57:51.113 MythSocket(bcf730:21): new socket
> 2009-10-18 21:57:51.113 MythSocket(bcf730:21): UpRef: 1
> 2009-10-18 21:57:51.113 MythSocket(bcf730:21): attempting connect() to
> (0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1:6545)
> 2009-10-18 21:57:51.113 MythSocket(bcf730:21): connect() failed
> (InternalError)
>
> The localhost lookup is returning the ipv6 localhost address
> 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1 which is then causing the connection to fail. Not sure
> if this is an Ubuntu or Mythtv bug so I've also reported it here
> http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/7516
>
> ** Bug watch added: mythtv.org bug tracker #7516
> http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/7516

[Douglas Mackay (o-launchpad-mackayd-co-uk)]

Fixed in Mythbuntu 10.04 & 9.04 with auto builds enabled