[mythtv-users] TVlive freezes after 2 seconds

Frédéric Feyel mcffeyel at free.fr
Sun Jul 3 17:22:17 EDT 2005


What I have done is :

(Fedora) :

chkconfig --level 123456 mythbackend stop

to prevent the loading of mythbackend during the boot

and in rc.local :

/sbin/modprobe ivtv
mythbackend &

This solved my problem definitely.

Steve Naylor a écrit :

> This happens to me on every reboot.   To fix it, I have to stop 
> mythbackend, depmod -a and modprobe ivtv.
>
> I tried to put this in rc.local like this:
>
> /sbin/rmmod ivtv
> /sbin/depmod -a
> /sbin/modprobe ivtv
> service mythbackend restart
>
>  but it doesn't work.  Could it be that mythbackend is running at this 
> point?  I don't know when in the boot sequence services start (before 
> or after rc.local).
>
> Let me know if you get it working on a fresh reboot.
>
> Steve
>
>
>
> On 7/3/05, *Frédéric Feyel* <mcffeyel at free.fr 
> <mailto:mcffeyel at free.fr>> wrote:
>
>     Oooooh, thank you very much for this advice ! It could be the problem,
>     because before my last reboot (ie everything done by hand, and
>     of course ivtv loaded before mythbackend) everything worked well...
>
>     I will put everything in the right order, on /etc/rc.local (which
>     is a
>     very convenient place to do this).
>
>     I will tell you tonight if it has worked or not.
>
>     Thanks,
>
>     Frederic.
>
>
>     dhoyos at hoyosdesign.com <mailto:dhoyos at hoyosdesign.com> a écrit :
>
>     > I was having the same issue and what I found out was that it was
>     > happening
>     > becasue the mythbackend was starting before the ivtv drivers were
>     > loaded. What
>     > I have done at the moment is to disable mythbackend from
>     starting on
>     > boot up.
>     > Then I make sure the ivtv drivers are loaded and after they are
>     loaded
>     > I start
>     > up mythbackend manually. I know that you could probably edit some
>     > files to make
>     > sure the drivers are loaded before the backend starts but I haven't
>     > had a chance
>     > to find out what they are and how to do it. Maybe someone else can
>     > help you out
>     > with the automation part of it. Hope thats the problem. Cheers,
>     > Daniel
>     >
>     > Quoting mcffeyel at free.fr <mailto:mcffeyel at free.fr>:
>     >
>     >> Finally I got my config to work (pvr 250).
>     >>
>     >> Everything went well, until I reboot the computer to see if the
>     >> configuration
>     >> was good.
>     >>
>     >> Now the LiveTV works for 2 seconds only, and then freezes.
>     After some
>     >> other
>     >> seconds, the liveTV module ends up, and it goes back to the
>     main menu.
>     >>
>     >> mythfrontend says :
>     >>
>     >> 2005-07-03 00:00:48.238 prebuffering pause
>     >> 2005-07-03 00:01:07.088 ReadStringList timeout (quick).
>     >> Remote encoder not responding.
>     >> 2005-07-03 00:01:07.089 WriteStringList: Bad socket
>     >> ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in /usr/lib/qt-3.3/include/qvaluelist.h (373)
>     >> 2005-07-03 00:01:07.092 WriteStringList: Bad socket
>     >> 2005-07-03 00:01: 07.093 ReadStringList: Bad socket
>     >>
>     >>
>     >> while mythbackend says :
>     >>
>     >> 2005-07-03 00:03:06.782 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
>     >> 2005-07-03 00:03:10.442 joined null string in WriteStringList
>     >> 2005-07-03 00:03:30.582 Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None
>     >>
>     >>
>     >> Any idea ?
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