<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, 21 Oct 2018 at 08:04, Mike Bibbings <<a href="mailto:mike.bibbings@gmail.com">mike.bibbings@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
There is an unresolved issue with mythtv and *ubuntu 18.04 (and others) <br>
where mythtbackend is not stopped when entering mythtv-setup, which can <br>
cause "failed to open card" messages.<br>
<br>
The current work round is to use systemctl commands in a terminal <br>
session to stop mythbackend before using mythtv-setup<br>
<br>
sudo systemctl stop mythtv-backend</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Many thanks Mike. Yes. By doing that, I no longer got "failure to open card".</div><div><br></div><div>On attempting to scan I did get "failure to parse parameters" (?!?) but now baby screaming, wife stressed that we aren't going out yet and I can't keep looking into this so I guess it'll stay broken for the moment... oh well, not the first time. Sometimes I understand why people just buy a PVR ;-)</div></div></div>