I had a problem like that. The cause was an extra tuner I had defined in mythtv-setup but not assigned a channel lineup to yet. That seemed to cause the backend to crash every time I looked at the status.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 5/18/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jim Shank</b> <<a href="mailto:jim.shank@gmail.com">jim.shank@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p>I just noticed today that when I go into system status, I
lose the backend. Error logs show:</p>
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<p>MainServer: HandleRemoteEncoder(cmd GET_STATE) Unknown
encoder: 2, exiting</p>
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<p> [root@myth ~]# mythbackend --version</p>
<p>Library API version: 0.20.20060828-4</p>
<p>Source code version: exported</p>
<p>Options compiled in:</p>
<p> linux release using_xvmcw using_lmsensors using_v4l
using_oss using_alsa using_arts using_jack using_ivtv using_firewire
using_dbox2 using_hdhr using_ip_rec using_freebox using_live using_lirc
using_joystick_menu using_dvb using_x11 using_xv using_xrandr using_xvmc
using_xvmc_vld using_opengl_vsync using_opengl using_frontend using_backend
using_bindings_perl</p>
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<p>from libmyth-0.20.1-156.3.md4.</p>
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<p>Any ideas?</p>
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