[mythtv-users] Myth Frontend on Fedora doesn't start, could it be cdrecord?

[Nick]

On 17/03/06, Agent0013 <0013.agent0013 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I have been having difficulty getting MythTV working for quite some time
> now. I have just recently used the guide at wilsonet.com/mythtv to install
> Fedora Core 4 and everything goes smoothly even up through running MythTV
> for a while. But eventually I will need to restart MythTV because it does
> not run very long before something crashes either the front or back end.
> When restarting the front end I will eventually run into a problem where it
> does not start up. The screen will come up like it is going to start, but it
> never gets to the resizing images progress bar, it just stays stuck there.
> The computer is not locked up, I can alt-tab to the terminal and shut down
> the front end. But once this happens, there will always be a cdrecord
> process running when I do 'ps -e'. And each time I try the frontend another
> cdrecord will be added to the running processes. None of the cdrecord
> processes can be killed in any way. The only thing that clears them is a
> reboot, which is a pain because Fedora does not like to boot up on my
> machine, it locks up right after the udev line. After enough reboots I can
> get it to start back up. That problem was with me in Fedora Core 3 also and
> I have not been able to find a solution to that anywhere. I thought I had
> fixed the cdrecord problem during my Core 3 system by replacing the Red Hat
> version of cdrecord with the original version. I have read at the cdrecord
> site that the Red Hat version can be a bit buggy. And after I replace it I
> had no more problems with the front end, just the back end not recording. So
> here I am on Core 4 and I am having the cdrecord problem (or possibly it is
> just a symptom of some other problem) and I have the original version, not
> the Red Hat version. I have been able to get the front end back up by
> deleting the tuner cards from mythtvsetup and running mythfrontend -r to
> reset the frontend. That works sometimes to get back to the frontend, for  a
> while, until it happens again.

I'd suggest uninstalling cdrecord and see if this cures the problem.
If not, turn on udev logging to see where udev is having problems
during boot, and check your mythbackend and mythfrontend logs to see
if there are any log entries as to why the frontend is hanging.

There is an option in the frontend's setup to enable CD recording, so
I'd make sure this is disabled if you are able to get into
mythfrontend.

Nick