[mythtv-users] mythbackend errors

Jeff Monks mythtv at skunkeye.com
Tue Jul 22 03:39:50 EDT 2003


On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Harondel J. Sibble wrote:

> Hmm, when mythfrontend has a problem and has to be shutdown with alt-f4 or 
> ctrl-c from the terminal it was started from, running:
> 
> /etc/init.d/mythbackend status 
> 
> reports "mythbackend dead but subsys locked"
> 
> What subsys is it refering too?  Reloading the bttv drivers does not resolve 
> the issue nor does restarting mythbackend. The only way to get things working 
> again is rebooting.


Try removing the "mythbackend" file in /var/lock/subsys - this is an empty 
file that Mandrake writes when it starts the process and removes when it 
stops the process.  If something else stops the process, the file is left 
behind, and the startup script thinks it's still running.



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