[mythtv-users] Capture card not recognized

[Mark Perkins]

On 5 June 2018 6:07:01 am Klaus Becker <colonius at free.fr> wrote:

> 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
>
>
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Did you manually stop mythbackend before starting mythtv-setup? Often the 
prompt when running mythtv-setup to get it to stop mythbackend for you will 
silently fail. Verify there are no myth programs running with something like:

ps aux | grep myth