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

Michael Jones m_g_j at michaelandholly.com
Fri Jun 24 01:51:03 UTC 2005


I'm almost thinking that I should nuke my installation and start over
again.. 


> 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.
> 

I'm only running mythbackend as root.. mythfrontend is running as a user
called mythtv.

If I don't run mythbackend as root from a console (manually).. it blows up
(see below)

I only created the symlink 'cause someone suggested it might work.. thought
I'd try it.   It didn't.

.. and I'm really glad I'm not running windows.. ;-)

> 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.

The /etc/init.d/mythbackend file exists.

-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root  1315 Jun 22 11:22 mythbackend

> 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.

Here's the entry from chkconfig --list

mythbackend     0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off

>> 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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