[mythtv-users] black screen at "watch tv" -- RingBuf (fd -1) error

Igor Murashkin downtown1 at gmail.com
Fri Jan 19 21:23:34 UTC 2007


Yes, I am doing *everything* as the mythtv user. I'm running mythbackend in
one terminal and mythfrontend in another terminal.

-Igor

On 1/19/07, Kevin Kuphal <kuphal at dls.net> wrote:
>
> Igor Murashkin wrote:
> > After configuring and installing ivtv, mythtv, etc, I'm now getting an
> > error when trying to go to "Watch TV"
> >
> > I am running everything under the mythtv user on the same computer:
> >
> > My backend logs are at http://rafb.net/p/9WmL6y65.html, frontend logs
> > at http://rafb.net/p/5VyT0X10.html
> >
> > I think the key here is:
> > 2007-01-19 10:23: 35.348
> > RingBuf(/var/lib/mythtv//1036_20070119102328.mpg): Invalid file (fd
> > -1) when opening '/var/lib/mythtv//1036_20070119102328.mpg'.
> >
> > Unfortunately that is *very* much a valid file, as when I do `mplayer
> > '/var/lib/mythtv//1036_20070119102328.mpg'` the file plays just fine
> > (until the backend expires it).
> >
> > If anyone has any ideas, I'd greatly appreciate it, its my first time
> with mythtv and I'd rather not use MCE.
> >
> What about permissions?  Are you doing both actions as the same user?
>
> Kevin
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