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Remote frontend not working - Mythbuntu Control Centre option greyed out?

Feb 15, 2008, 6:41 AM

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I am trying to get a remote frontend to connect to a Mythbuntu 7.1
combined frontend/backend. MySQL is working as MythTV works fine

However, when I load Mythbuntu Control Centre - System Services the
dropdown that allows you to enable MySQL service on the Ethernet
interface is greyed out.

Doing a search on the web a few people have reported this but the only
solution appears to be reinstall until it works. Does anyone know of
anything else I can do?

I have tried sudo dpkg-reconfigure mythtv-database answering as
appropriate but when I try to connect from the remote frontend
directly from a mysql prompt it still says no mysql at that host.
Clearly something is not being allowed through?

My Remote Frontend is currently Mythbuntu run direct from the install
DVD just for testing at the moment.

Anyone got any ideas?

TIA
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Re: Remote frontend not working - Mythbuntu Control Centre option greyed out? [ In reply to ]

mario.mailing at gmail

Feb 15, 2008, 7:20 AM

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nospam312 wrote:
> I am trying to get a remote frontend to connect to a Mythbuntu 7.1
> combined frontend/backend. MySQL is working as MythTV works fine
>
> However, when I load Mythbuntu Control Centre - System Services the
> dropdown that allows you to enable MySQL service on the Ethernet
> interface is greyed out.
>
> Doing a search on the web a few people have reported this but the only
> solution appears to be reinstall until it works. Does anyone know of
> anything else I can do?
>
> I have tried sudo dpkg-reconfigure mythtv-database answering as
> appropriate but when I try to connect from the remote frontend
> directly from a mysql prompt it still says no mysql at that host.
> Clearly something is not being allowed through?
>
> My Remote Frontend is currently Mythbuntu run direct from the install
> DVD just for testing at the moment.
>
> Anyone got any ideas?
>
> TIA
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> mythtv-users@mythtv.org
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You change that setting on the backend - not the frontend... If you can't get
it to change on that machine, then you can simply modify
/etc/mysql/conf.d/mythtv.cnf

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Re: Remote frontend not working - Mythbuntu Control Centre option greyed out? [ In reply to ]

nospam312 at gmail

Feb 15, 2008, 9:06 AM

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> You change that setting on the backend - not the frontend... If you can't get
> it to change on that machine, then you can simply modify
> /etc/mysql/conf.d/mythtv.cnf

I have a machine which is a BE and FE. This is where I am trying to
connect a remote FE to. The setting in the Control Centre on the
combined BE/FE is greyed out.

I have commented out the bind-address line in mythtv.cnf and that did
not help. If I change from 0.0.0.0 to the IP address of the combined
FE & BE that seems to get Myth confused and thinks it needs to setup
the backend again after I reboot.

The error message when I do a mysql -hTHEIPADDRESS is "error 2003
(hy000) can't connect to mysql server on THEIPADDRESS (111). This is
without even specifying a user and password.

Any other ideas?

TIA
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Re: Remote frontend not working - Mythbuntu Control Centre option greyed out? [ In reply to ]

brutab at verizon

Feb 15, 2008, 12:53 PM

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nospam312 wrote:
>> You change that setting on the backend - not the frontend... If you can't get
>> it to change on that machine, then you can simply modify
>> /etc/mysql/conf.d/mythtv.cnf
>>
>
> I have a machine which is a BE and FE. This is where I am trying to
> connect a remote FE to. The setting in the Control Centre on the
> combined BE/FE is greyed out.
>
> I have commented out the bind-address line in mythtv.cnf and that did
> not help. If I change from 0.0.0.0 to the IP address of the combined
> FE & BE that seems to get Myth confused and thinks it needs to setup
> the backend again after I reboot.
>
> The error message when I do a mysql -hTHEIPADDRESS is "error 2003
> (hy000) can't connect to mysql server on THEIPADDRESS (111). This is
> without even specifying a user and password.
>
> Any other ideas?
>
> TIA
> _______________________________________________
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> mythtv-users@mythtv.org
> http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
>
>
Is iptables keeping the remote frontend out?
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Re: Remote frontend not working - Mythbuntu Control Centre option greyed out? [ In reply to ]

nospam312 at gmail

Feb 16, 2008, 7:45 AM

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> Is iptables keeping the remote frontend out?

Sorted this for anyone interested. This was on a standard Mythbuntu
v7.1 install.

Like Mario suggested I needed to comment out the bind-address line in
/etc/mysql/conf.d/mythtv.cnf but for it to work I needed to comment
out the bind-address line in /etc/mysql/my.cnf also.
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