[mythtv-users] Success story and my own Tivo comparison (long
and windy)
Garett Harnish
garett at chaos.za.org
Fri Oct 17 14:46:51 EDT 2003
Harondel J. Sibble wrote:
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>
>I have to issue a killall frontend at this point. If I then bring the
>frontend back and try to watch live tv or a recorded show I get a black
>screen, alt-f4 shuts that down though. After killing the ftontend, if I do a
>/etc/init.d/mythbackend status, it shows 5 or 6 processes running, however if
>I then do a /etc/init.d/mythbackend restart, it says it can't find the
>processes to shutdown, it then says okay for mythbackend started.
>
>I also notice that after killing the frontend, the recording on the TV Wonder
>stops (no flashing of the harddrive light).
>
>Any other info needed to look into this?
>
>
Run `dmesg`. In theory, if the problem was with MythTV itself, init 1
then init 5 should bring you back up and running (mythtv is userland).
Since it does not, something -- likely the driver -- died, and if that
happened it will be in the output of dmesg, right near the end. Hope
that helps.
--
Garett
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