[mythtv-users] Device or resource busy with trunk

brad dreisbach bradd at ameri.ca
Thu Oct 7 14:34:52 UTC 2010


On Oct 7, 2010, at 10:17 AM, David Engel wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 10:08:39AM +0200, Elkin Fricke wrote:
>> I am not sure what is happening here. A few days ago my backend
>> started acting up. It works perfectly until out of the blue it spits
>> out the message
>> 
>> DVBSH(/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0): Failed to open DVR device
>> /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 : Device or resource busy
>> 
>> and fails to record. After that all recordings fail the same way. A
>> simple restart of the backend fixes the issue, but its very annoying.
> 
> I've been using the attached patch with 0.23-fixes for a long time
> after I had this problem.  It's similar to the change I made to
> dvbchannel.cpp in [22406].  I never committed this one because I never
> say anyone else report the problem until now.  Daniel, do you have any
> problem with me committing this change (with the formatting cleaned
> up, of course)?

fwiw i am seeing this as well.



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