Kevin, The backend starts when any network interface that isn't lo is up (and the other conditions are met). This accounts for most user situations. We've made the decision to wait for networking to start because systems are becoming fast enough that they would finish starting before any networking was up, causing the backend to not listen on any external interface.
You mention that people with more than one system are more experienced people. I disagree. With the number of devices in people's homes (tablets/phones/computers), it is more likely that someone will want to attach use one of these devices to access their MythTV system in some way (eg. third party frontend, remote control, etc). I don't believe that most of the new users you talk about would take their systems off network in order to watch tv. Most of those cases would be laptops, and those shouldn't be MythTV backends unless they are used for demonstration purposes (and IMO, anybody doing a MythTV demonstration should be one of the more experienced users you talk about and thus able to edit the upstart file). Now for those more experienced users, that have a system that needs to be off network (eg. they are giving a demonstration, they never put their system on a network), there is an easy way to configure what you are asking for (eg. removing the net- device-up requirement). Any changes made to this file don't get overwritten by the packaging. Now I'm more than willing to keep discussing this with you, but I can't think of a reason that we would change this. There are simply more reasons to keep it than revert the change. If you can give some solid reasons why we should revert the change and ignore all the users that needed that in the first place (there were a not insignificant amount of users that were having issues with the backend starting before networking), I'll certainly entertain the idea. Thanks, Thomas Mashos -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1077536 Title: MythTV Backend Configuration Application shows Terminal Screen instead of Graphical User Interface To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mythtv/+bug/1077536/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
