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Author: | epyonrx7 [ Fri Feb 18, 2005 5:43 pm ] |
Post subject: | R5A9: all tuner cards in use on live tv after update + fix |
I just auto-updated from R4V5 to R5A9 last night and ran into an issue, where upon trying to watch live tv, I got a message that all tuner cards were in use. This wasn't the case. There were no scheduled recordings (prototype/proof of concept box). I checked the system status, and the tuner cards showed as not in use. I tried remotely on my Powerbook and got the same message. I then tried running myth-setup and clearing my tuner card info. Upon restarting the backend, I noticed a message that /root/.qt couldn't be created. Permissions were 660. On a hunch, I decided to be heavy handed and I set that directory and everything in it to 777. Lo and behold, everything worked, and I could view tv from all of my tuner cards. Hopefully this might be of use to someone else out there. My config:
384MB RAM 200GB Maxtor 2x PVR-250 (great) ![]() 1x WinTV Go PCI (awful) ![]() |
Author: | cesman [ Fri Feb 18, 2005 6:00 pm ] |
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Oddity indeed. Making a file or directory under /root is a very bad idea. After restarting the backend, did you try to watch TV? |
Author: | epyonrx7 [ Fri Feb 18, 2005 7:20 pm ] |
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I had restarted the backend and the machine several times, and I had seen the "All Tuner Cards In Use" message upon watching live tv every time until I changed permissions. Testing methodology: 1) fire up myth-frontend 2) try and watch live tv 3) see evil message 4) quit frontend 5) tweak something 6) restart backend 7) repeat, with a couple of mythbox powercycles in there I had seen the "can't access/write/whatever file /root/.qt" a couple of times before I realized it could be an issue. After I did a chmod -R 777 /root and restarted the backend, the /root/.qt message went away. I then fired up the front end and got to live TV without a problem. I fired up live TV simultaneously on my Powerbook from the second PVR 250 also without the message. So it's sounding like mythtv is processing a file it shouldn't. Not sure what everyone else's permissions on /root are, but permissions on that directory might be something that KnoppMyth could look out for. |
Author: | cesman [ Fri Feb 18, 2005 7:45 pm ] |
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Sorry, while KnoppMyth is meant to be a PVR and it is hopfully behind a firewall, it WILL NOT include /root with permissions of 777 (PERIOD). |
Author: | epyonrx7 [ Fri Feb 18, 2005 7:57 pm ] |
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Of course not! ![]() Never meant that KnoppMyth should start churning out legions of completely accessible linux boxes! I'm just not sure of what the correct, minimally accessible permissions on /root/.qt are to get mythtv to run. So on my firewall protected box, I opened it up to see what worked. I'm sure others could be a little less heavy-handed if they run into the same problem - I was just highlighting a permissions issue. ![]() |
Author: | cecil [ Fri Feb 18, 2005 8:35 pm ] |
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Like I stated this is an oddity. I've seen it once or twice before. I've solved it by either restarting the backend or dropping the cards, reconfiguring and restarting backend. |
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