[mythtv-users] Mythtv on FC3 problems

[Ryan A. Carris]

On Mar 31, 2005 8:12 PM, Dave Fade <sajubien at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Ok, I followed the http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/
> tutorial for installing mythtv, but now I am stuck. I
> have installed mythtv-suite via apt-get, and ran
> mythtvsetup. My setup is to have mythtv frontend and
> backend on the same machine...so, I executed
> mythbackend, then mythfrontend from shell. The mythtv
> gui came up. everything seemed to work, the
> programming guide was right, and so on, but when I go
> to "Watch TV" it just goes to a black screen. I can
> alt tab to the shell windows to see what is the
> problem. Here are some of the messages:
(snip)
> Couldn't read file:
> rbuf://127.0.0.1:6543/mnt/store//ringbuf1.nuv
> 2005-03-31 20:16:35.935 LiveTV not successfully
> started
(snip)

Check your myth settings to see where you are telling it you want the
ringbuffer and recordings stored.  I believe that Jarod's guide
changes it from /mnt/store/ which is the default as you can see from
above.
If you are using /mnt/store for your storage location, check permissions.