[mythtv-users] TV won't play unless you run mythbackend manually from a console

[kanetse at gmail.com]

I've had something similar happen.  When you run it as a service, is
your mythbackend service still running?  When I run 'service
mythbackend status', I usually get a 'pid file exists, but mythbackend
is dead' message.  When that happens, I find out it's because
mythbackend is looking for its settings in //.mythtv/ instead of
/root/.mythtv.  I created a symlink called /.mythtv/ that points to
/root/.mythtv and that seems to solve the problem for me.

On 6/22/05, Michael Jones <m_g_j at michaelandholly.com> wrote:
> I'm pretty new to this whole thing so be gentle with me ;)
> 
> 
> Just finished putting together a MythTV/Fedora3 box with Jarod Wilson's
> instructions.
> 
> Everything works well except if I run mythbackend as a service watching live
> tv doesn't work.
> 
> If I open a console window as root and run it manually:
> 
>     #mythbackend &
> 
> everything works.  If I run it as a service and start live tv, the live tv
> screen shows up runs for about 1-2 sec and then freezes,  the system then
> waits about 60sec and then returns to the main menu by itself.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> I'm almost sure it's a permission thing.. but don't where.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> - Michael
> 
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