Re: mythbackend starting before mySQLd

On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 2:17 AM, Christopher X. Candreva
<[email protected]>wrote:

> On Fri, 31 Aug 2012, The Walters wrote:
>
> > I ran into this before and found where someone said just include a delay
> in the mythbackend startup script (edit
> > /etc/rc.d/init.d/mythbackend and change/add: sleep ## <-- number of
> seconds 5 - 10 works), that has been working for me.
> >
> > # daemon --user mythtv $binary $OPTIONS
> >   daemon sleep 10; $binary $OPTIONS
> > Hope this helps.
>
> Rather than try to find the best sleep value, I added this bit of code
> before mythbackend actually starts:
> #Wait for mysql to start, up to 60 seconds
>
> for i in {1..60}
> do
>         if mysql -u mythtv -pPassword </dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1  ; then
>                 break
>         fi
>         sleep 1s;
> done
>
>
> So it checks once a second to see if it can connect, 60 times. It will wait
> up to a minute, then continue anyway -- and mythbackend will fail, but if
> it
> isn't up after a minute something is wrong.
>
>
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Note the systemd now looks after the pre-req of MySQLd, the latest issue
was some DVB devices taking sometime to initialized but the sleep / delay
seems to have worked for me.

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