[mythtv-users] Incorrect "Realtime priority would require SUID as root" Error?

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Mon Apr 10 05:45:44 UTC 2006


On 04/10/2006 01:28 AM, Robin Smith wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am running the latest version of MythTV from Gentoo's portage 
> (mythtv-0.19_p9163-r1) and when I start a recording I get:
>   Realtime priority would require SUID as root
> The curious thing is mythfrontend is suid root (via: chmod +s 
> /usr/bin/mythfrontend)
> Any ideas as to what's causing the warning to display if the frontend 
> is already suid?

Outdated message (kernel has changed since it was written).  See 
"Enabling real-time scheduling of the display thread." in the section at 
http://mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-5.html#ss5.4

Mike


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