[mythtv-users] Re: mythtv-users Digest, Vol 5, Issue 80

[J. Alexander Jacocks]

I've gone through my setup further, and it just doesn't make sense.  
However, I have found several bad sectors forming on my main disk.

I think that I will rebuild my system on a new disk before I try to 
troubleshoot further.

Thanks!

On Saturday, June 21, 2003, at 07:56 PM, 
mythtv-users-request at snowman.net wrote:
> On Saturday 21 June 2003 01:34 am, J. Alexander Jacocks wrote:
>> I have a SoundBlaster Live running under ALSA drivers on Kernel 
>> 2.4.20.
>>   Its very weird.  When the front-end hangs, so does the back-end.  I
>> have to kill both to restore functionality.
>
> It's more the backend hanging that's causing the frontend to hang =)
>
>> Here's what I get in mythbackend.log:
>>
>> 2003-06-21 01:31:20 adding: heracles.jajcs.net as a player 0
>> 2003-06-21 01:31:20 adding: heracles.jajcs.net as a remote ringbuffer
>> Can't open video device:
>> open video:: No such file or directory
>> VIDIOCSAUDIO: Bad file descriptor
>>
>> This seems to indicate that my /dev/video0 link is bad.  However, if I
>> schedule a recording and then watch it, everything is fine.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
> That's odd, especially if recording works.  The error messages 
> indicate that
> the video device is set to nothing at all.
>
> Isaac