[mythtv-users] Help troubleshooting

[jose rubio]

On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 21:36, stan wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 08:48:38PM -0500, stan wrote:
> > I shut my protptype mtytv machien down (installed from KoppMyth CD, and
> > apt-get dist-upgraded). It had been working for about a week, and I decided
> > to add a disk so that I would have some room for recordings, as I had about
> > 1 hours worth of sapce on the timy disk I did the test install on.
> > 
> > Now, it's broken :-)
> > 
> > It comes up, and autologins, and I get the top eve menu, I can go to
> > mythweather, and that works. But if I try to go to "watch TV" I get a black
> > screen and it hangs. If I try to go to watch TV I never get to the
> > selection menu.
> > 
> > What can I check?
> > 
> OK, I think I may be on the track of something here.
> 
> It seems that mythbackend is running (actully several copise, is that
> omral).
> 
> I notice that weh I kill the X serverm get back to the gdm login screen,
> and login in I see a little box pop up during startup thta seems to have
> active tv picture in it. So, my working theory is that somethng is causing
> this to stat up whne the mythtv user logs in. Is there some sort of session
> file for this user, that I cna clear?
> 
> -- 
Good god, did you type the last paragraph with your eyes closed?
Anyway, if you do `ps -ef|grep backend` you will get several of
processes, depending on what the backend is doing.

I would guess that you are having pemission problems.  Restart X like
you did above.  Then open a terminal and run mythfrontend manually.  See
what kind of error it is reporting in the terminal and then post that. 
We should be able to help you with that info.