Mailing List Archive: mythbackend errors

Hmm, when mythfrontend has a problem and has to be shutdown with alt-f4 or
ctrl-c from the terminal it was started from, running:

/etc/init.d/mythbackend status

reports "mythbackend dead but subsys locked"

What subsys is it refering too? Reloading the bttv drivers does not resolve
the issue nor does restarting mythbackend. The only way to get things working
again is rebooting.

This is on an mdk 8.2 system running myth 0.10. I've seen the same behaviour
under the 0.9.x releases.

I'm running a clean 2.4.20 kernel with the alsa 0.9.5 stuff, dual tuners,
Aver TVPhone (/dev/video, /dev/dsp) and ATI TV Wonder (btaudio module)
(/dev/video1, /dev/dsp3 - digital with 32k sampling) on an Epox 8KTa3 (via
kt133a) motherboard with an Athlon XP1800+ and 512mb pc133.
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On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Harondel J. Sibble wrote:

> Hmm, when mythfrontend has a problem and has to be shutdown with alt-f4 or
> ctrl-c from the terminal it was started from, running:
>
> /etc/init.d/mythbackend status
>
> reports "mythbackend dead but subsys locked"
>
> What subsys is it refering too? Reloading the bttv drivers does not resolve
> the issue nor does restarting mythbackend. The only way to get things working
> again is rebooting.

Try removing the "mythbackend" file in /var/lock/subsys - this is an empty
file that Mandrake writes when it starts the process and removes when it
stops the process. If something else stops the process, the file is left
behind, and the startup script thinks it's still running.

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