Lucien, Yes, this problem is solved now. There was a stale file called /var/lib/init.d/started/mythbackend that made the system think mythbacked was running when it wasn't. I removed that file and now the server is running:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /TVstorage/log $ ps aux | grep myth mark 18240 0.0 2.1 110720 10528 ? Ssl 11:01 0:00 /usr/bin/mythbackend --daemon --pidfile /TVstorage/log/mythbackend.pid --logfile /TVstorage/log/mythbackend.log --verbose all At this point I can do mythtv-setup as root (possibly incorrectly - I don't know) and run mythfilldatabase. That finishes OK: Data for source cleared... Main temp tables populated. Updating myth channels... Updating icons for sourceid: 1 Channels updated.. Updating programs... Adjusting program database end times... 0 replacements made. Marking repeats...found 1428 Unmarking repeats from grabber that fall within our new episode window...found 62005-04-23 11:22:52.022 Connecting to backend server: 127.0.0.1:6543 (try 1 of 5) 2005-04-23 11:22:52.050 Using protocol version 15 dragonfly started # Not exactly sure what to try next so I run mythfrontend as root. (If I run as a user right now it's acting weirder!) Is this the thing to do? I choose Watch TV, I get a black screen for about 5 seconds and then the frontend comes back to the menu. I exit out and I see this in the terminal: dragonfly started # mythfrontend 2005-04-23 11:39:38.612 New DB connection, total: 1 Total desktop width=1280, height=1024, numscreens=1 2005-04-23 11:39:38.616 Using screen 0, 1280x1024 at 0,0 2005-04-23 11:39:38.618 mythfrontend version: 0.18.20050409-1 www.mythtv.org 2005-04-23 11:39:38.619 Enabled verbose msgs : important general 2005-04-23 11:39:38.732 Switching to square mode (blue) mythtv: could not connect to socket mythtv: Connection refused lirc_init failed for mythtv, see preceding messages 2005-04-23 11:39:39.067 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin. 2005-04-23 11:39:39.074 Registering MythDVD DVD Media Handler as a media handler2005-04-23 11:39:39.075 Registering MythDVD VCD Media Handler as a media handler2005-04-23 11:39:39.224 Registering MythMusic Media Handler as a media handler 2005-04-23 11:39:44.120 New DB connection, total: 2 2005-04-23 11:39:44.133 Connecting to backend server: 127.0.0.1:6543 (try 1 of 5) 2005-04-23 11:39:44.140 Using protocol version 15 2005-04-23 11:39:44.187 Using protocol version 15 2005-04-23 11:39:46.017 NVP: Couldn't find a matching decoder for: rbuf://127.0.0.1:6543/TVstorage/ringbuf1.nuv 2005-04-23 11:39:46.096 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV 2005-04-23 11:39:46.096 Decoder not alive, and trying to play.. 2005-04-23 11:39:46.148 Changing from None to None 2005-04-23 11:39:46.312 RemoteFile::Read() failed in RingBuffer::safe_read(). dragonfly started # Note the line above about no matching decoder. and the log shows: 2005-04-23 11:39:44.138 13 ACCEPT[]:[]15 2005-04-23 11:39:44.145 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback 2005-04-23 11:39:44.155 adding: dragonfly as a client (events: 0) 2005-04-23 11:39:44.156 2 OK 2005-04-23 11:39:44.168 Getting next free recorder after : -1 2005-04-23 11:39:44.172 Card 1 is local. 2005-04-23 11:39:44.173 24 1[]:[]127.0.0.1[]:[]6543 2005-04-23 11:39:44.180 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback 2005-04-23 11:39:44.182 adding: dragonfly as a client (events: 1) 2005-04-23 11:39:44.183 2 OK 2005-04-23 11:39:44.185 13 ACCEPT[]:[]15 2005-04-23 11:39:44.191 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback 2005-04-23 11:39:44.196 adding: dragonfly as a client (events: 0) 2005-04-23 11:39:44.199 2 OK 2005-04-23 11:39:44.207 84 rbuf://127.0.0.1:6543/TVstorage/ringbuf1.n... 2005-04-23 11:39:44.213 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback 2005-04-23 11:39:44.215 adding: dragonfly as a client (events: 0) 2005-04-23 11:39:44.216 2 OK 2005-04-23 11:39:44.221 adding: dragonfly as a remote ringbuffer 2005-04-23 11:39:44.230 2 OK 2005-04-23 11:39:44.245 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV 2005-04-23 11:39:44.255 Using profile 'Live TV' to record 2005-04-23 11:39:44.258 Channel(/dev/v4l/video)::CheckSignalFull(): input = 0 2005-04-23 11:39:44.294 2 ok 2005-04-23 11:39:44.312 197 Global Business People[]:[] []:[] []:[]Bus... 2005-04-23 11:39:45.997 6 128000 2005-04-23 11:39:46.010 7 0[]:[]0 2005-04-23 11:39:46.021 6 128000 2005-04-23 11:39:46.025 1 1 2005-04-23 11:39:46.041 6 128000 2005-04-23 11:39:46.046 1 1 2005-04-23 11:39:46.060 6 128000 2005-04-23 11:39:46.081 5 29.97 2005-04-23 11:39:46.091 6 128000 2005-04-23 11:39:46.106 Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None 2005-04-23 11:39:46.109 48 BACKEND_MESSAGE[]:[]DONE_RECORDING 1 0[]:[... 2005-04-23 11:39:46.108 6 128000 2005-04-23 11:39:46.140 2 ok 2005-04-23 11:39:46.147 2 -1 2005-04-23 11:39:46.317 9 -1[]:[]-1 2005-04-23 11:39:46.326 2 OK 2005-04-23 11:39:49.047 4 TRUE The program 'Global Business People' is on channel 3 right now so that seems like a more or less correct thing for it to start with. However it cannot find a decoder I think and therefore doesn't show me anything. Is that what's happening? Where do I get decoders? Shouldn't that have been part of the install? Cheers, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
