ullix wrote: > I forgot to state: I am using the Kubuntu desktop. > > I have no idea what EIT is, and there is no device of this name or a > similar one under /dev there is no group with even a faint similarity to > EIT. I also verified that the mythtv user can write to the recording > location. > > There is more strange stuff: The mythtv user and group exist only as > system user:group(112:120), and the user had been inactivated (must have > come from installation default since I never touched that), although a > home directory for mythtv had been created under /home. I activated user > mythtv, and went through the same tests again --> Identical behaviour as > originally reported. > > I rebooted the computer and started the main user session with no myth- > anything running. Then I started a new parallel session as user mythtv > and started "mythbackend" in the konsole. No error message, and > basically same output to the konsole as shown in a previous posting. But > when trying live TV the "all inputs taken ..." message came up. > Switching over to the other session with the main user resulted in the > same failure. > > However, starting "mythbackend" in the konsole in the main user session > allowed both the main user and mythtv user to watch live TV in their > respective sessions! > > Then from the main user (mythtv user has no admin rights) I killed > mythbackend and started it with "sudo /etc/init.d/mythtv-backend start" > : both main user and mythtv user received the error message of "all > inputs taken...". > > More odd behaviour: > when mythbackend was started in the konsole, then attempting to stop it via > "sudo /etc/init.d/mythtv-backend stop" yields the message "Stopping MythTV > server: mythbackend No /usr/bin/mythbackend found running; none killed." and > mythbackend remains running. > When following with command "sudo /etc/init.d/mythtv-backend start" the > script pretends to start mythbackend, but the PID of mythbackend is left > unchanged. But when the same command is issued again, then it returns the > message "mythbackend already running, use restart instead." > > Are the mythtv scripts in init.d not actually testing the running status > but maintaining flags somewhere? Are similar flags also the reason for > the "all inputs taken..." errors? > My next recommendation to further debug this issue is to add more verbose flags to the file /etc/default/mythtv-backend. You can get the flags supported from
mythbackend --help See exactly why Myth thinks these inputs are in use from the init script. -- Mario Limonciello [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- mythtv in gutsy does not work when started at boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/194085 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
