On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 05:09:12PM -0600, Andy Long wrote: > Well, for me at least, I was able to find a (sloppy, but pretty easy) > workaround for it.
Your workaround works for me. Very strange. I never had an issue like this in 0.14 or 0.15, but I ran those on RH9. > I've posted to the list and never really got a > response. Would be great if someone more knowledgeable would enlighten us as to what may be going on. > FYI, I'm running FC3, Kernel 2.6.10-1.741_FC1 using the > mythtv 0.16 (whatever one was avialable via apt-get). Maybe one of > the new CVS fixes this, but I'm still a n00b and not comfortable > messing with that yet. My stats for the archives: FC2, Kernel 2.6.8-1.521 686, WinTV PVR 250, ivtv 0.1.10-48_pre2_ck100zz.rhfc2.at MythTV 0.16 > > First, exit the frontend. Then try killing and then restarting the > backend (don't reboot the box or anything). I do it as follows on > FC3: > > # /etc/init.d/mythbackend stop > # /etc/init.d/mythbackend start > > Now go back into the frontend and see if you can change channels (for > me, I couldn't get audio working without restarting the backend > either). Can you change channels now? If so, then you had the same > problem I did. Sure did. Thanks for sharing the workaround. > To make this a more permanent workaround, I did the following: > > 1) Used the following command to turn the autostart of mythbackend off > (Jarod's guide shows this way to make it start up automatically, so > I'm just undoing it if that's how you set up your box). > > # /sbin/chkconfig mythbackend off > > 2) I then added the following lines to my /etc/rc.d/rc.local file at > the bottom: > > /etc/init.d/mythbackend start > sleep 3 > /etc/init.d/mythbackend stop > /etc/init.d/mythbackend start > > > The "sleep 3" statement is in there because it seems it was killing > off the backend too quickly before it fully started. I played with > several ways of trying to start the backend, kill it, and then restart > it whenever the PC would boot, but this is the only way I found that > works reliably for me. It's very sloppy, and I'd love to know how to > do it cleaner/easier, but this is what I got. > > Let me know if that helps or if you find a better way. Good enough for me. Though it would be nice to figure out why this is necessary. Thanks! -David > > -Andy > > > On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 16:41:19 -0600, David Blevins > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Sat, 22 Jan 2005, Andy Long wrote: > > > > > Just out of curiousity, what does the OSD say when you try change > > > channels? Does it say something like "0 minutes"? > > > > I am also having a channel changing issue and "0" minutes is exactly what > > the OSD says. > > > > Is this an easy one to fix? > > > > -David > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > mythtv-users mailing list > > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
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