-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>Hash: SHA1<br><br>I have been having difficulty getting MythTV working for quite some time now. I have just recently used the guide at <a href="http://wilsonet.com/mythtv">wilsonet.com/mythtv
</a> to install Fedora Core 4 and everything goes smoothly even up through running MythTV for a while. But eventually I will need to restart MythTV because it does not run very long before something crashes either the front or back end. When restarting the front end I will eventually run into a problem where it does not start up. The screen will come up like it is going to start, but it never gets to the resizing images progress bar, it just stays stuck there. The computer is not locked up, I can alt-tab to the terminal and shut down the front end. But once this happens, there will always be a cdrecord process running when I do 'ps -e'. And each time I try the frontend another cdrecord will be added to the running processes. None of the cdrecord processes can be killed in any way. The only thing that clears them is a reboot, which is a pain because Fedora does not like to boot up on my machine, it locks up right after the udev line. After enough reboots I can get it to start back up. That problem was with me in Fedora Core 3 also and I have not been able to find a solution to that anywhere. I thought I had fixed the cdrecord problem during my Core 3 system by replacing the Red Hat version of cdrecord with the original version. I have read at the cdrecord site that the Red Hat version can be a bit buggy. And after I replace it I had no more problems with the front end, just the back end not recording. So here I am on Core 4 and I am having the cdrecord problem (or possibly it is just a symptom of some other problem) and I have the original version, not the Red Hat version. I have been able to get the front end back up by deleting the tuner cards from mythtvsetup and running mythfrontend -r to reset the frontend. That works sometimes to get back to the frontend, for a while, until it happens again.
<br><br>Sorry for the long message, I have been dealing with these problems for way too long now and I want to get as much information out for people who may have any idea what I should try. I have been posting on forums with not much success, maybe I have been using the wrong place.
<br><br>It is possible to start the frontend without cdrecord running? Is there a way to get rid of it. The man page make it seem like that is used for burning cd's. I do not even have a cd or dvd burner in this computer, so I have no need for cdrecord at all. But if the cdrecord is more of a symptom than a cause then even that won't help.
<br><br>I am thinking it may be better to switch to another distribution. But Fedora with the wilsonet walkthrough installs no easily. The sounds just works, the tuners just work, pretty much everything works right off. I tried Debian for a bit, and noticed that nothing worked. I would have to get sound working on my own, then the tuners, then the graphics card, then the remote. It just seemed like too big of a task. Does anyone know of a good page for setting up a Debian myth box. Or any other distribution for that matter. I even tried KnoppMyth, but that failed on me. The autoconfigure script would just stop part way through and do nothing. What is wrong with my comptuer? It is an Athlon 64 with SATA drives and 2 Hauppauge 150's. I am sure that my choice of hardware is part of the cause, but come on, there has to be a way to get this thing working.
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