[mythtv-users] digital cable; myth frontend locks up

Brad DerManouelian myth at dermanouelian.com
Tue Jul 15 13:40:38 UTC 2008


On Jul 14, 2008, at 11:18 PM, Gordon McLellan wrote:

> I have recently installed a fresh machine with Mythdora 5.  I'm using
> a PVR-500 card, connected to analog cable, and tuner2 -> composite 1
> is connected to a motorola DCT2000 cable box.
>
> When I go into Watch TV, and try to tune to a channel that is on the
> set top box, the screen goes black, and myth becomes unresponsive.
> Pressing "back" or escape yields no effect.  If I hit ALT-F4, gnome
> comes up asking if I want to terminate a non responsive program
> "mythfrontend".  Also, myth doesn't appear to run the channel changing
> script (/usr/local/bin/channel) as compiled from the contrib directory
> under docs.  When I run the script manually from command line, it
> works fine.
>
> Tuning to analog channels on both tuner1 and tuner2 works fine.
>
> Any ideas where I begin to troubleshoot this?

Start with the log files.



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