I had a very similar problem, but I actually got something in my /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log file:
Starting up as the master server. /mnt/store//nfslockfile.lock: Permission denied Unable to open lockfile! Be sure that '/mnt/store/' exists and that both the directory and that file are writeable by this user. I checked the directory and it was owned by root (I assume because I mounted a drive there,) so I first chowned the directory to nobody:nobody thinking that the initscript ran as nobody. However, that didn't work, but I noticed that mysql runs as the user 'mysql' so I chowned the directory to mythtv:nobody and everything worked smoothly. You may have to add the user mythtv to the video group (to access your tv card.) I certainly hope that helped someone. On 1/14/06, Jerry McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm having a real odd problem running the backend server for MYTHTV... > > The short story is, I can't startup the backend server via the startup script > at /etc/init.d/mythbackend... start does not work. It claims it starts but it > doesn't, no errors, nothing at all in dmesg or messages and worse than that, > the backend server doesn't run long enough to log anything > to /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log! > > Now the kicker... if I execute /usr/bin/mythbackend directly from a console, > it runs perfectly... and for the time being that's how I'm running it... I've > a fully functional mythtv setup, I just can't start the backend server from > the init script. > > I've tried loading all kinds of einfo's to the startup script to help trace > actions in the script... it all looks like the server should be loading. I > even added strace to the script and the output looks just peachy... but it > won't start from the script. > > Anyone have any ideas? > > Thanks, in advance, > Jerry.... > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
