[mythtv-users] a few questions about startup process

Michael Starks mythtv at michaelstarks.com
Wed Dec 15 00:26:28 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 08:41 -0500, David George wrote:
> Interesting.  The only problem with this is, at least in FC3, rc.local 
> runs after all the other init scripts.  Which means if you are 
> automatically starting mythbackend with the mythbackend script the ivtv 
> module won't load until after mythbackend starts.  What I did is modify 
> the mythbackend script to automatically modprobe ivtv if it isn't 
> already there.
> 
> Add the following lines to /etc/init.d/mythbackend in the start() 
> function after echo -n $"Starting $prog: ":

Hmm, I have been having a few problems with the frontend segfaulting and
live TV sometimes not working after a reboot.  I haven't looked into it
that deeply yet but I wonder if it's related to this.  I may give your
code a try...



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