Re: confused by MythTV on buster

On 11 août 2018 18:28, jsbien@??? (Janusz S. Bień) wrote:

[...]

>> service mythtv-backend status
>>
>> journalctl -xa
>
> root@VivoPC-D8:/home/jsbien# service mythtv-backend status
> bash: service: command not found

Maybe /usr/sbin Isn't in your PATH environment variable or
init-system-helpers isn't installed ?

,----
| $ type service
| service is /usr/sbin/service
| $ dpkg -S /usr/sbin/service
| init-system-helpers: /usr/sbin/service
`----

[...]

> Aug 11 18:13:44 VivoPC-D8 mythbackend[1559]: mythbackend[1559]: I CoreContext mythcontext.cpp:971 (TestDBconnection) Start up failure. host localhost, status dbAwakeFail

The mysql server has been launched before mythtv at startup ?

> mythtv-backend has no problem with login when started from the command
> line.

Launched from the command line as root ?

Normally you need to use service to start the backend.

Christian