[gentoo-user] mythtv backend problem...

[gentoo-user] mythtv backend problem...

[Jerry McBride]

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....
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Re: [gentoo-user] mythtv backend problem...

[Charles Pittman]

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 <mcbrides9@comcast.net> 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....
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> gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
>
>

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