Package: mythtv-backend
Version: 0.20.2-0.2
Severity: normal
I recently tripped over a bug identical to the one described in the
following thread:
http://www.mailinglistarchive.com/mythtv-dev%40mythtv.org/msg01009.html
I can confirm that, as Gervase Markham suspected, it has to do with
giving the wrong IP address to mythtv-setup. In my case, the problem
turned out to be that I'd typed "192.168.123" instead of "192.168.2.123"
as my IP address.
Could I suggest that the "host address backend setup" page (the first
page in the "general" series in mythtv-setup) is redesigned so that:
a) A checkbox marked "this computer is the master server" goes before
the master server options, and is ticked by default. When this is
ticked, the master server options are hidden.
b) When the user clicks "next" from this menu, both IP addresses are
checked to see if they're valid numeric addresses (or that
gethostbyname() returns a non-null value if host names are allowed).
If not, a message is displayed saying "<invalid address> is not a
valid IP address. Are you sure you want to use it?".
Although neither of these changes would make the problems we encountered
impossible, it would make it harder to blunder into them without
thinking.
- Andrew Sayers
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-1-k7 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages mythtv-backend depends on:
ii cron 3.0pl1-100 management of regular background p
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.14 Debian configuration management sy
ii libartsc0 1.5.7-2 aRts sound system C support librar
ii libasound2 1.0.14a-2 ALSA library
ii libavc1394-0 0.5.3-1+b1 control IEEE 1394 audio/video devi
ii libc6 2.6.1-1+b1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libfreetype6 2.3.5-1+b1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.2.1-4 GCC support library
ii libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1] 7.0.1-2 A free implementation of the OpenG
ii libglib2.0-0 2.14.0-2 The GLib library of C routines
ii libglu1-mesa [libglu1] 7.0.1-2 The OpenGL utility library (GLU)
ii libiec61883-0 1.1.0-2 an partial implementation of IEC 6
ii libjack0.100.0-0 0.103.0-6 JACK Audio Connection Kit (librari
ii liblame0 3.97-0.0 LAME Ain't an MP3 Encoder
ii libmyth-0.20.2 0.20.2-0.2 Common library code for MythTV and
ii libqt3-mt 3:3.3.7-8 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii libraw1394-8 1.2.1-3.1 library for direct access to IEEE
ii libstdc++6 4.2.1-4 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library
ii libxext6 1:1.0.3-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxinerama1 1:1.0.2-1 X11 Xinerama extension library
ii libxmu6 1:1.0.3-1 X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii libxrandr2 2:1.2.2-1 X11 RandR extension library
ii libxv1 1:1.0.3-1 X11 Video extension library
ii libxvmc1 1:1.0.4-2 X11 Video extension library
ii libxxf86vm1 1:1.0.1-2 X11 XFree86 video mode extension l
ii mythtv-common 0.20.2-0.2 A personal video recorder applicat
ii transcode 2:1.0.4-0.0 Utility to encode raw video/audio
ii wget 1.10.2-3 retrieves files from the web
Versions of packages mythtv-backend recommends:
ii logrotate 3.7.1-3 Log rotation utility
ii mythtv-database 0.20.2-0.2 A personal video recorder applicat
ii xmltv-util 0.5.48-1 Utilities related to the XMLTV fil
-- debconf information:
* mythtv/run_setup:
* mythtv/create_v4l_devs: true
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