[mythtv] Mythbackend Fails to start with --generate-preview error

Chris Pinkham cpinkham at bc2va.org
Wed Mar 12 04:08:38 UTC 2008


* On Tue Mar 11, 2008 at 11:39:33PM -0400, R. G. Newbury wrote:
> Has anyone else experienced this? Is this a singular anomaly or a real bug?
> 
> I upgraded from SVN 16279 to 16399, and recently to 16479. The latter 
> two both fail on 'service mythbackend restart' with a reported error 
> like "--generate-preview requires --chanid and --starttime or --infile"

Looks like something in mythbackend/main.cpp doesn't handle your particular
command line properly.  Insert a debug statement into your init script to
print out the command that it is trying to execute so we can see what args
it is passing to mythbackend so we can replicate the issue.

--
Chris


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