[mythtv-users] Myth Frontend on Fedora doesn't start, could it be cdrecord?

[Agent0013]

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I didn't think of uninstalling cdrecord. What would I do for that, "yum
remove cdrecord" or something like that?

I did have the cdrecording disabled in the frontend and still had the
problems with it locking up. What I have done at this point to fix it, is
sort of a hack, but it seems to be working so far. I replaced the cdrecord
file with a bash script that does nothing. So when the frontend calls the
cdrecord program, nothing is done, and it continues on into the frontend. I
wasn't sure if this would work, or if it would cause problems for Mythtv,
but it looks like it is working.

And thanks for the suggestion on turning on udev logging. I will look into
how to do that. So far I have rebooted twice since the cdrecord replacement
and haven't seen the lockup, but it is too early to tell. It is possible
that the cdrecord was my issue there also.

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On 3/18/06, Nick <knowledgejunkie at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 17/03/06, Agent0013 <0013.agent0013 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > I have been having difficulty getting MythTV working for quite some time
> > now. I have just recently used the guide at wilsonet.com/mythtv to
> install
> > Fedora Core 4 and everything goes smoothly even up through running
> MythTV
> > for a while. But eventually I will need to restart MythTV because it
> does
> > not run very long before something crashes either the front or back end.
> > When restarting the front end I will eventually run into a problem where
> it
> > does not start up. The screen will come up like it is going to start,
> but it
> > never gets to the resizing images progress bar, it just stays stuck
> there.
> > The computer is not locked up, I can alt-tab to the terminal and shut
> down
> > the front end. But once this happens, there will always be a cdrecord
> > process running when I do 'ps -e'. And each time I try the frontend
> another
> > cdrecord will be added to the running processes. None of the cdrecord
> > processes can be killed in any way. The only thing that clears them is a
> > reboot, which is a pain because Fedora does not like to boot up on my
> > machine, it locks up right after the udev line. After enough reboots I
> can
> > get it to start back up. That problem was with me in Fedora Core 3 also
> and
> > I have not been able to find a solution to that anywhere. I thought I
> had
> > fixed the cdrecord problem during my Core 3 system by replacing the Red
> Hat
> > version of cdrecord with the original version. I have read at the
> cdrecord
> > site that the Red Hat version can be a bit buggy. And after I replace it
> I
> > had no more problems with the front end, just the back end not
> recording. So
> > here I am on Core 4 and I am having the cdrecord problem (or possibly it
> is
> > just a symptom of some other problem) and I have the original version,
> not
> > the Red Hat version. I have been able to get the front end back up by
> > deleting the tuner cards from mythtvsetup and running mythfrontend -r to
> > reset the frontend. That works sometimes to get back to the frontend,
> for  a
> > while, until it happens again.
>
> I'd suggest uninstalling cdrecord and see if this cures the problem.
> If not, turn on udev logging to see where udev is having problems
> during boot, and check your mythbackend and mythfrontend logs to see
> if there are any log entries as to why the frontend is hanging.
>
> There is an option in the frontend's setup to enable CD recording, so
> I'd make sure this is disabled if you are able to get into
> mythfrontend.
>
> Nick
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