NVTV Problems, please help

khendon · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 19 Mar 2003 Posts: 80

My nvtv seems to stop working from time to time, usually after a couple of hours doing different things in X. Without any explanation, xine can't find the nvtvd and I have no tv-out. The biggest problem though is that I can't shut the thing down, /etc/init.d/nvtv stop just returns two red exclamation marks, and nvtv start says it's allready started. So, the only way for me to get it working again is to completely reboot my system. And this is really annoying, since I don't run linux for the joy of having to reboot even more often than I did with my Win2k installation.

Isn't there any way to just force-kill the damned thing, totally without mercy and making really sure that it will be able to start up again? I mean, somewhere there has to be something that tells nvtv that it's allready running, and I'd like to find that something and do some very nasty things to it

khendon · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 19 Mar 2003 Posts: 80

Ok, so here's what seems to be happening. The nvtvd process does show up in the process list so I killed it, just to see what happened. And it appears this is what happens randomly. I can't restart nvtv, it just says that it's allready loaded. Any ideas? Why would it say that it's allready running, when it's not?

khendon · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 19 Mar 2003 Posts: 80

Well... rtfm@me

Was as easy as /etc/init.d/nvtv zap to get rid of the system thinking it was running, after that it started up just fine. Worked when I manually killed the nvtvd anyway, so I hope it has solved the problem.