[mythtv-users] Can't change channel

[John Erickson]

On 2/16/06, Josh Adams <jadams74 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Mabye someone here can help me with this problem. When I go to watch live
> tv, which has been working fine, now it won't change channels. It loads up
> the default channel fine and plays, but if i go to change it to any other
> chanel it pops up the correct program listing at the bottom, but then just
> stays on the current channel.

If you're using an external channel change script make sure it can
still write to the serial port (and that it is executeable by the
backend, etc).  Gentoo transitioned from the backend running as root
by default to running as mythtv by default.  That change broke some
implicit permissions expectations.

-John Erickson