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stinkytoe
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Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 11:15 pm Post subject: mythtv init script strangeness

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i can't seem to start mythtv the usual way using

Code:

# /etc/init.d/mythbackend start

When run it reports that everything was successful, but mythbackend isn't running.
I tried running

Code:

# ps a

and it isn't listed.
If i then run

Code:

# /etc/init.d/mythbackend stop

it claims to have shut down properly, despite the fact that mythtv was never running.
If i manually run mythbackend, however, mythtv works just fine. I have had this problem on two different machines.

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aVirulence
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Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 1:37 pm Post subject:

Duplicate: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-527736-highlight-mythbackend.html The (probable) solution is in that thread. Good luck! It worked for me.

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Hobbes-X
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Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 4:56 pm Post subject:

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You can check mythbackend's logs to see what the error was with tail:

Code:

tail -n40 /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log

or, as long as the service is stopped, you can run mythbackend from the command line to see what the error is. Make sure to run it as the user that the init script starts it as. mythbackend pulls some settings from the current users' home directory, so you can have problems with one user, but not another. For the current ebuilds in portage, it's the user mythtv.

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