Opened 11 years ago

Closed 11 years ago

Last modified 11 years ago

#11148 closed Bug Report - General (fixed)

PingHost setting in config.xml does not work

Reported by: vah78@… Owned by: Raymond Wagner
Priority: minor Milestone: 0.26.1
Component: MythTV - General Version: 0.26
Severity: medium Keywords: ping PingHost config.xml
Cc: Ticket locked: no

Description

The pinging of the mysql server at program (mythbackend, mythfrontend, mythlogserver, etc.) start cannot be disabled with this setting. This is a problem when mysql is running on a different host and ping is either not installed or does not work as a non-root user. Thus, ping fails and programs starts to prompt connection settings from the user.

I did reconfigure using the command line prompts with mythbackend and GUI prompts with mythfrontend, and both correctly(?) saved the setting as "<PingHost?>0</PingHost?>" to config.xml, but it does not stop them from trying to ping when started next time.

Tested on Arch Linux with MythTV version 0.26 from community repository. (This did work up to version 0.25.2 but that probably still used the old mysql.txt even though it created a config.xml in ~/.mythtv.)

As a workaround, a dummy shell script as the ping command in user's path will do the trick: #!/bin/sh exit 0

Change History (3)

comment:1 Changed 11 years ago by Raymond Wagner

Milestone: unknown0.26.1
Owner: set to Raymond Wagner
Status: newassigned

comment:2 Changed 11 years ago by Raymond Wagner <rwagner@…>

Resolution: fixed
Status: assignedclosed

In 65a720c9b830ab77bbd2931e03fb428e05dee6f9/mythtv:

Read in dbPingHost value from config.xml.

Fixes #11148

comment:3 Changed 11 years ago by Raymond Wagner <rwagner@…>

In 4c67cedbea9e4b18d7688f30af02bd46e65cd07d/mythtv:

Read in dbPingHost value from config.xml.

Fixes #11148
(cherry picked from commit 65a720c9b830ab77bbd2931e03fb428e05dee6f9)

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