[mythtv-users] BE errors

Daryl McDonald darylangela at gmail.com
Thu Sep 12 20:46:28 UTC 2013


On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Bill Meek <keemllib at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 09/12/2013 01:59 PM, Daryl McDonald wrote:
> ...
>> Ok here is the result of the last command:
>>
>>
>> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$  ps ax | grep mythbackend | grep -v grep
>>   2986 ?        Ssl    0:05 /usr/bin/mythbackend --syslog local7 --user
>> mythtv
>>   3133 pts/3    Sl+    0:03 /usr/bin/mythbackend
>>
>> and the status command now shows it is "start/running"
>>
>> The "/usr/bin/mythbackend" command has been showing the errors I've
>> been trying to address recently, but you're right I was attempting to
>> use it to start the BE, pointers much appreciated. So now do I need to
>> keep looking at and addressing those errors? Scheduled recordings have
>> been hit and miss at best lately. Sometimes instead of recording it is
>> "tuning", and I am concerned about the status of my
>> /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0 card, it seems there is a failure to open
>
>
> Clearly two instances of the backend running. The 1st started by
> the system, most likely when the machine powered up (or rebooted,)
> and the 2nd started by you on the command line. Don't manually start the
> backend unless you *know* it's not running!
>
> To look at errors, just look in your backend's log. It's just another
> file. Use whatever tool you like to look at it. As suggested last week,
> cat, less, nano or a good choice to look at it in real-time: tailf.
>
> If the error on /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0 is in the backend's log
> (not the log output from your starting a 2nd instance of it,) then
> you truly have a problem. To repeat, be sure the error is in the
> backend's log before worrying about it.
>
>
> --
> Bill
> _______________________________________________
> mythtv-users mailing list
> mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> http://www.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

OK I think I'll be fine for now, enormous thanks for your clarity and
patience Bill. BTW I did get my hands on an O'Reilly (PDF) "Linux in a
nutshell", with enough reading I'm hoping for a improved understanding
of what must seem quite basic to this list, kudos to all.

Daryl


More information about the mythtv-users mailing list