[mythtv-users] Device or resource busy with trunk

David Engel david at istwok.net
Thu Oct 7 16:33:04 UTC 2010


On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 09:17:25AM -0500, David Engel wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 10:08:39AM +0200, Elkin Fricke wrote:
> > I am not sure what is happening here. A few days ago my backend
> > started acting up. It works perfectly until out of the blue it spits
> > out the message
> > 
> > DVBSH(/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0): Failed to open DVR device
> > /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 : Device or resource busy
> > 
> > and fails to record. After that all recordings fail the same way. A
> > simple restart of the backend fixes the issue, but its very annoying.
> 
> I've been using the attached patch with 0.23-fixes for a long time
> after I had this problem.  It's similar to the change I made to
> dvbchannel.cpp in [22406].  I never committed this one because I never
> say anyone else report the problem until now.

This change is now in trunk and 0.23-fixes.

David
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