[mythtv-users] Tuners in constant use, until I change the way backend starts

[paul]

On 27/11/13 15:41, Thomas Mashos wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 2:31 AM, paul <thannet at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 26/11/13 23:29, Erik Hjertén wrote:
>>>
>>> 2013-11-26 22:29, paul skrev:
>>>> I have just installed two TBS cards a 6982 DVB-S & 6280 DVB-T into what
>>>> was my perfect running Mythbuntu .27
>>>>
>>>> Problem I had was constant tuners are in use, yet with scan then play via
>>>> mplayer they work fine? Now by accident I stopped the backend and thought
>>>> about starting it verbose, but instead of doing a sudo service mythbackend
>>>> stop & start I just ran "mytbackend" on it's own. Tuners now work in Myth? ,
>>>> did try starting as a service again and the tuners are all busy again? Is
>>>> this some sort of permissions issue with the tuners? Not quite sure where to
>>>> look? any hints
>>> Check permissions in /dev/dvb/... I guess it needs to be readable by your
>>> whichever user is running mythbackend. If you have to change the permissions
>>> I think you ca add a chmod line to /etc/rc.d/rc.local or similar to make it
>>> stick after boot.
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>> Thank you, will go check. Odd thing is that I have not changed anything? The
>> new DVB-T card uses the same driver as the DVB-S installed.
>>
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> What if you stop the backend, su to the user "mythtv" then start it
> from the command line using the command mythbackend? Does it work
> then?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Thomas Mashos
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Hi Thomas

I did try as you suggest and logged in as mythtv. And no, it does not work, all tuners are back to in use.
So it seems this is permissions of some sort? Checked on the tuners in the bin/dvb and compared them against a friends system.
They both have the same rights.

Paul