[mythtv-users] Getting this working should NOT be this hard!

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Mon Oct 20 20:44:58 UTC 2008


> I had to download dvb-utils for this, which wasn't a big deal, but when
> I try to run the scan, I get:
>
> hdevine at hdevine-desktop:~$ sudo scan
> /usr/share/doc/dvb-utils/examples/scan/atsc/us-PA-Philadelphia >
> /tmp/channels.conf
> [sudo] password for hdevine:
> scanning /usr/share/doc/dvb-utils/examples/scan/atsc/us-PA-Philadelphia
> using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0'
> main:2247: FATAL: failed to open '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0': 16
> Device or resource busy
>
> This was after I rebooted the box just to be sure.  Any ideas?
>

Is mythbackend running?

John


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