[mythtv-users] Error: MythTV is using all inputs but there are no active recordings?

[Richard Shaw]

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Tapani Tarvainen
<mythtv at tapanitarvainen.fi> wrote:
> ls -l /dev/dvb/adapter*/frontend0
> crw-rw----+ 1 root video 212, 3 2012-03-26 16:34 /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0
> crw-rw----+ 1 root video 212, 7 2012-03-26 16:34 /dev/dvb/adapter1/frontend0
>
> I'm not quite sure what exactly those should be or what'd changed
> them (I suspect apt-get upgrade - yeah, I know, but...)
> Anyway, I did
>
> usermod -G video mythtv
>
> and it works again. :-)
> Changing the ownership/permissions of those device files would've
> presumably worked as well, but I'm guessing usermod like that
> is more robust against updates &c.

This is how the RPM Fusion packages work. It creates a "mythtv" user
which mythbackend runs as and it's a member of the audio and video
groups.

Richard