I've nearly got my new Ubuntu based MythTV 0.20 system into a robust state. I've just got two little things left that I'm having trouble with and hopefully somebody here can point me to a solution.<br><br>The first issue is that when I reboot, it does not start the backend. There is a script in /etc/init.d called "mythtv-backend" that was installed when I installed MythTV from the repositories. However, it does not appear to get run?!? If I remove /var/log/mythbackend.log and then touch it and chown it to get it to a "0 size" state and then reboot it remains empty. Any idea what is going on there? Is there anything I have to do to (apart from putting the file in /etc/init.d) that I have to do to get the system to invoke it (I know how this is done in FC but I'm fairly new to Ubuntu, sorry).
<br><br>As a side note, is this script run as root? I assume so. I ask because I need to do a few things as root inside this script to get the system properly set up.<br><br>Actually that leads to another question...I'm having to run ivtvctl and ivtv-tune in /etc/init.d/mythtv-backend. This is because even though I have specified to use the tuner input and what the tuner channel should be set to, the backend doesn't seem to apply these properly. Any ideas on what might be going on?
<br><br>The last issue is that, once I get the backend up and running, the first time I go to "WatchTV" it just comes back to the menu after showing a blank screen for a few seconds. The second time I go to watch TV, it works (and from then on). Any ideas? I suspect a similar thing might happen for the first attempted recording (if nobody has watched TV) which could cause me to miss recordings.
<br><br>Thanks for any pointers.<br><br>--<br>Mike<br><br>