[mythtv] backend hangs before probing

[Isaac Richards]

On Monday 07 April 2003 06:17 pm, John David Garza wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I did have mythtv working last week on my gentoo box.  However, after
> updating my world i've managed to break myth, and recompiling it
> doesn't fix it (i've tried both 0.8 and cvs).  I've emerged my system
> back to what it was before (i think) but i'm still having problems.
> When I call mythbackend, it hangs after the "Starting up as the master
> server." instead of probing the video device.
>
> Using the frontend, mythtv says the card is in use and all the files
> listed also say "Error: file missing!".  I can use the other items tho
> like recording scheduling, and this has been the only way I can get the
> backend to seg fault out of this state, by scheduling a recording.
> Once it comes time to start the scheduled recording it'll segfault with
> no errors, here is the gdb output from such a case:

Have you changed the hostname of your box?  Kinda looks like you have..

Isaac