[mythtv-users] Help needed as my mythtv-backend has lost it's mind (or maybe I have)

[James Abernathy]

On Tue, Nov 8, 2022 at 9:03 AM Peter Bennett <pb.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 11/8/22 08:27, James Abernathy wrote:
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> On Tue, Nov 8, 2022 at 7:12 AM James Abernathy <jfabernathy at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> My backend is running fixes/32
>> (v32.0+fixes.202211050719.18f5b48ee1~ubuntu22.04.1)
>>
>> The tuner is a Hauppauge WinTV quadHD ATSC PCIe card. This morning I
>> tried to do some maintenance which was only supposed to be editing the
>> Schedules Direct channel using tv_grab_zz_sdjson_sqlite --manage-listing
>> and that part went as expected.
>>
>> Next I ran mythtv-setup and it said it needed to shutdown the backend and
>> I said yes and it required the password.  I tried to edit channels and scan
>> but I kept getting failures with my tuner card. Since I could not get it to
>> recognize the card I exited without saving and started the backend again.
>> My remote frontends could now connect to the backend and view Live TV.
>>
>> At that point it was time to panic as usual, so I went back into
>> mythtv-setup and deleted all the tuners and started over.  I kept getting
>> errors when trying to add the tuner card. It could not ID the card but
>> obviously could find it in a scan of tuners.
>>
>> I have not powered off the system, but I have rebooted several times.
>>
>> Has there been any recent changes to how the tuner cards are
>> initialized at boot? This system has been running without major changes for
>> a couple of years.
>>
>> Jim A
>>
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> Some additional information.  I powered off the system and restarted and
> nothing changed over just resetting as expected.  I temporarily added some
> HDHomerun tuners to get the morning recordings to happen.   Now that that
> is over, I tried deleting all tuners and adding back in the Hauppauge WinTV
> QuadHD card.  If find the tuner but when I look at the parameters of the
> tuner I see:
> Frontend ID   Could Not get Card info for /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0
> At the bottom of the screen I see "appears the card can be in use by
> another program."
>
> I have not installed any new software on the system so not sure what this
> could be all about.
>
> Jim A
>
>
> Try
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> ls -l /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0
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> You should see this
> crw-rw----+ 1 root video 212, 3 Nov  8 08:59 /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0
>
> Make sure it shows group video and also make sure the user id that runs
> mythbackend and the one that runs mythfrontend have the video group (run -i
> -a while logged into those users).
>
> Peter
>
Thanks a lot for the help. The issue is resolved.  On my backend the main
user running mythtv-setup is 'jim'.  User "jim" was not a part of the
"video" group, but user "mythtv" that runs mythbackend and mythfilldatabase
is in the "video" group. I added user 'jim' to the group "video" to fix the
issue.

The puzzling thing is that this system has been working flawlessly for a
few years and since the remote backend is in a closet, I use:
   ssh -X jim@<ip address>
to login and run mythtv-setup.  This is the first time that I've tried to
rescan a tuner card in a long time. I wonder what changed?

Jim A

 ls -l /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0
crw-rw----+ 1 root video 212, 0 Nov  8 08:10 /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0
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