[mythtv-users] TV won't play unless you run mythbackend manually from a console

Michael Jones m_g_j at michaelandholly.com
Thu Jun 23 22:46:31 UTC 2005


Thanks.. but no cigar..

Tried that, rebooted and still has problems.

I created a symlink to /root/.mythtv in // and it still does the same thing.

When I run 'service mythbackend status' it returns "mytbackend (pid 3647) is
running...' 

and returns me to the command prompt.




> From: "kanetse at gmail.com" <kane.tse at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: <kanetse at hotmail.com>, Discussion about mythtv
> <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 19:27:59 -0700
> To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] TV won't play unless you run mythbackend manually
> from a console
> 
> I've had something similar happen.  When you run it as a service, is
> your mythbackend service still running?  When I run 'service
> mythbackend status', I usually get a 'pid file exists, but mythbackend
> is dead' message.  When that happens, I find out it's because
> mythbackend is looking for its settings in //.mythtv/ instead of
> /root/.mythtv.  I created a symlink called /.mythtv/ that points to
> /root/.mythtv and that seems to solve the problem for me.
> 
> On 6/22/05, Michael Jones <m_g_j at michaelandholly.com> wrote:
>> I'm pretty new to this whole thing so be gentle with me ;)
>> 
>> 
>> Just finished putting together a MythTV/Fedora3 box with Jarod Wilson's
>> instructions.
>> 
>> Everything works well except if I run mythbackend as a service watching live
>> tv doesn't work.
>> 
>> If I open a console window as root and run it manually:
>> 
>>     #mythbackend &
>> 
>> everything works.  If I run it as a service and start live tv, the live tv
>> screen shows up runs for about 1-2 sec and then freezes,  the system then
>> waits about 60sec and then returns to the main menu by itself.
>> 
>> Any ideas?
>> 
>> I'm almost sure it's a permission thing.. but don't where.
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> - Michael
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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