[mythtv-users] Permission problem on /dev/video 0-3

bhaskins bhaskins at chartermi.net
Thu Jul 29 13:21:21 UTC 2010


MacNean Tyrrell wrote:
> Ok so my fathers mythtv box running .23, 2  days ago was running fine. 
>  Tonite he calls me and says mythtv isn't recording.  I go up, 
> information says recorders has an error.  I look in the mythtvbackend 
> log, i see:
>
> Channel(/dev/video0)::Open(): Can't open video device, error 
> "Permission denied"
> Channel(/dev/video1)::Open(): Can't open video device, error 
> "Permission denied"
> Channel(/dev/video2)::Open(): Can't open video device, error 
> "Permission denied"
> Channel(/dev/video3)::Open(): Can't open video device, error 
> "Permission denied"
>
> I did some searching and say and error with pvr150's and a udev fixing 
> it.  However, both of his are pvr500's.  I did try that fix but it 
> didn't work.  The weird thing is, once X is loaded, if I ssh in and run:
>
> sudo service mythtv-backend restart
>
> Everything works fine.  
>
> He hasn't done updates (he doesn't without me) in those 2 days.
>
> The permisions on /dev/video0-3 is
> crw-rw----- root video
>
> where video has mythtv/hisusername as part of the group.
>
> The udev rules made it:
> crw-rw-rw- root video
>
> But again non of this fixes mythbackend running correctly on bootup. 
>  I have to VNC/SSH in and restart the backend, but once I do it works 
> fine.
>
> So if anyone could shed some light on this for me that would be great. 
>  I do have autobuilds for mythbuntu enabled, I believe he's running 
> 25368.  Please help me out here.
> -- 
> Sincerely,
>
> MacNean C. Tyrrell
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> I think that we are seeing the same problem showing up in different ways.
>   
I had this hit on several different ways, and it did come from one of 
the ub10.4 updates.
The first sign was that mythweb shows blank pages, after that other 
problems will
sneak out under the baseboards.
It appears to be a sequencing problem, the backend  starts before it should.
The workaround is to restart the backend.
On one box I just gave up and went back to 9.10 ( works fine again ) but 
this also had
ongoing problems with hibernation crash and major wireless problems.
Ub10.4 has just not worked well for me, I hope that they can fix it in 
10.10.

Does anyone see any advantages to upstart?
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