[mythtv-users] Capture card not recognized

[Klaus Becker]

Hi,

In Debian Sid, Mythtv was recently updated to the last version 
29.1+fixes20180603.git1777cc4425-dmo1 from http://www.deb-multimedia.org.

My capture card is no more recognized:

$ mythtv-setup
.....
Can't open DVB frontend (/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0) for /dev/dvb/adapter0/
frontend0.
.....


However /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0 exists:

$ ls -l /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0 
crwxrwxrwx 1 root root 212, 0 juin   4 21:56 /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0


The card works. There is a tool (from the vendor) that shows that the card 
works:

$ mediaclient -e
**** List of Media Hardware Devices ****
device 0: [SkyTV Ultimate 6 2016/Q1]  DVB-S/S2, ANALOG-TV, REMOTE-CONTROL, 
OSS-AUDIO
  [INFO]:
     STATUS: ACTIVE
....


Mythtv is also installed on another pc and there the card is recognized.

I let mythtv-setup delete the card and create a new one, it does not work. It 
says it can't find the type of card and that there is an unknown error.

Also the frontend cannot connect to database although it is running:

# systemctl status mythtv-backend
● mythtv-backend.service - LSB: Start/Stop the MythTV server.
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/mythtv-backend; generated)
   Active: active (exited) since Mon 2018-06-04 17:46:01 CEST; 4h 33min ago
     Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
  Process: 796 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/mythtv-backend start (code=exited, 
status=0/SUCCESS)

juin 04 17:45:58 1stein systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Start/Stop the MythTV 
server....
juin 04 17:46:01 1stein mythtv-backend[796]: Starting MythTV server: 
mythbackend .
juin 04 17:46:01 1stein systemd[1]: Started LSB: Start/Stop the MythTV 
server..
juin 04 17:46:49 1stein mythtv-backend[796]: Cannot login to database
juin 04 17:46:49 1stein mythtv-backend[796]: Would you like to configure the 
database connection now? [no]
juin 04 17:46:49 1stein mythtv-backend[796]: [console is not interactive, 
using default 'no']

I tried without success
#dpkg-reconfigure mythtv-database
and
#dpkg-reconfigure mythtv-common

It does not help.


Bye

Klaus