[mythtv-users] Card settings seem to get corrupted/disappear on reboot

Nick knowledgejunkie at gmail.com
Mon Apr 18 17:38:56 UTC 2005


On 4/18/05, Lonnie Borntreger <myth at borntreger.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-04-16 at 15:33 -0400, Justin Walther wrote:
> > Is it possible that the devices aren't being defined before the
> > backend is trying to access them?  If so, I'm not sure what has
> > changed to cause this.  Any advice would be appreciated.
> 
> Try this.  After the failure, just restart the backend (instead of
> redoing the setup).  If that works, then yes, it is a timing issue.  Set
> the backend service to start later.
> 
> Lonnie

My quick and dirty solution is to modprobe my PVR350 and DVB cards in
my rc.local, and then have mythbackend start as the last command in
rc.local (after a couple seconds wait), to ensure that the drivers and
devices were loaded and present before mythbackend tried to access
them.

Nick


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