[mythtv] Live TV not releasing tuners.

Matt skd5aner at gmail.com
Sun Jul 3 12:46:14 EDT 2005


On 6/10/05, Keith Irwin <kirwin at ncsu.edu> wrote:
> 
> So, I went through the arduous, time consuming task of stepping through
> the last several days' worth of commits.  The result of this process is
> to discover that none of them caused it.  It appears to be some problem
> with CVS, dependencies, or both.
> 
> When I did a completely clean check-out and build in a new and
> untouched directory, everything worked out (well, everything mostly
> worked okay, there are now some QAM channels which I can't watch in
> Live TV mode even though they record fine.  Oddly enough, those worked
> in my old cvs directory until the last update and even with the last
> update).  My advice to Matt would be to try the same thing.  We
> probably got in the same situation somehow.
> 
> There seem to be dependencies which are not there which need to be.
> Specifically, when I did some of the check outs or other changes which
> should have resulted in some things getting rebuilt did not.  When I
> get some time, I'll try to track them down and add them.  Perhaps that
> will fix things in the future.  For the moment, redoing from scratch
> when odd problems occur is probably a good safety measure.
> 
> Keith
> 
> 

I always do it from scratch and I'm still seeing this issue.  Myth
doesn't release my live TV tuners and the front end is constantly
segfaulting.


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