[mythtv-users] Device or resource busy with trunk

[Gavin Hurlbut]

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 10:36 AM, David Madsen <david.madsen at gmail.com>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.
>>
>
>
> This failure could also be caused by this:
> http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/9016
>
> Some additional testing would be appreciated.
>

If it is related to that, then you should be able to find a second stuck
backend process that is the child of the main backend.  If no such process
exists, it is not the myth_system/VERBOSE locking issue.
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