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

Kevin Saenz ksaenz at gmail.com
Thu Jun 23 23:32:57 UTC 2005


Stupid question why are you running mythtv in root? why are you
symlinking a directory to / ? that is like creating a directory in
windows and shortcutting it to c:\ You are not running windows here.
:) set your system to autologon as a gumby user, and autolaunch
mythfrontend.

do you have mythbackend file in /etc/init.d?
what is the file's settings? is it executable? if not then chmod +x
mythbackend will help.

if you run chkconfig --list can you see mythbackend there? if so is activated?
if not all you need to do is run
chkconfig --add mythbackend 3456 or something like that I haven't used
redhat variants for a while.

> 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.
> 
> 
> 
> > 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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