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shplad

Post subject: backend won't start and ivtv compile error - losing hair

Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 12:55 pm

Joined: Sun Nov 14, 2004 10:04 am

Posts: 263

Location: Toronto, Canada

Hi all:

Well, due to availability of parts in my locale, I'm still struggling like heck
to get KnoppMyth R5A12 working. I'm determined to learn, though.
Currently, I have 2 problems:

1. Mythbackend gives an error when trying to start now. I'm pretty sure this behaviour started right after I inserted a new PVR-150 card. Is this because it will only start if the card drivers are installed correctly (which they arent)?

m y t h b a c k e n d. l o g

QSettings: error creating /.qt
Starting up as the master server.
ERROR: no capture cards are defined in the database.
Perhaps you should read the installation instructions?
2022-05-04 08:14:50.102 mythbackend version: 0.17.20050130-1 www.mythtv.org
2022-05-04 08:14:50.104 Enabled verbose msgs : important general
/myth/tv/nfslockfile.lock: Permission denied
Unable to open lockfile!
Be sure that '/myth/tv' exists and that both
the directory and that file are writeable by this user.
QSettings: error creating /.qt
Starting up as the master server.
ERROR: no capture cards are defined in the database.
Perhaps you should read the installation instructions?
2022-05-04 18:32:14.216 mythbackend version: 0.17.20050130-1 www.mythtv.org
2022-05-04 18:32:14.219 Enabled verbose msgs : important general
/myth/tv/nfslockfile.lock: Permission denied
Unable to open lockfile!
Be sure that '/myth/tv' exists and that both
the directory and that file are writeable by this user.
QSettings: error creating /.qt
Starting up as the master server.
ERROR: no capture cards are defined in the database.
Perhaps you should read the installation instructions?
2005-05-04 23:11:10.053 mythbackend version: 0.17.20050130-1 www.mythtv.org
2005-05-04 23:11:10.060 Enabled verbose msgs : important general
/myth/tv/nfslockfile.lock: Permission denied
Unable to open lockfile!
Be sure that '/myth/tv' exists and that both
the directory and that file are writeable by this user.

2. In order to install the right driver, I did a lot of reading, then downloaded ivtv 0.3.2s and tried to compile it, according to README and various HOWTOs. Got kernel source untarred. Went to make ivtv and got following error:

root@box:/ivtv-0.3.2s/driver# make
make CONFIG_VIDEO_IVTV=m -C /lib/modules/2.6.9-chw-4/build M=/ivtv-0.3.2s/driver/modules
make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.9-chw-4/build: No such file or directory. Stop.
make: *** [all} Error 2

Any help would be appreciated, as it feels like every step forward results in 3 steps back.

Thanks

Shplad

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brendan

Post subject: Re: backend won't start and ivtv compile error - losing hair

Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 1:08 pm

Joined: Tue Dec 07, 2004 12:04 pm

Posts: 369

shplad wrote:

root@box:/ivtv-0.3.2s/driver# make
make CONFIG_VIDEO_IVTV=m -C /lib/modules/2.6.9-chw-4/build M=/ivtv-0.3.2s/driver/modules
make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.9-chw-4/build: No such file or directory. Stop.
make: *** [all} Error 2

Any help would be appreciated, as it feels like every step forward results in 3 steps back.

Thanks

Shplad

Did you read the part about untarring the kernel source?

-brendan

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shplad

Post subject: Re: backend won't start and ivtv compile error - losing hair

Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 1:30 pm

Joined: Sun Nov 14, 2004 10:04 am

Posts: 263

Location: Toronto, Canada

Thanks Brendan. As mentioned above, however, I did untar the kernel source successfully.

What next?

Shplad

brendan wrote:

shplad wrote:

Did you read the part about untarring the kernel source?

-brendan

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Xsecrets

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Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 1:33 pm

Joined: Mon Oct 06, 2003 10:38 am

Posts: 4978

Location: Nashville, TN

do a ls -l in /usr/src and make sure that linux is a symlink to the actual kernel directory, you may even want to remove it and recreate it even if the link soes exist.

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shplad

Post subject: backend won't start and ivtv compile error - losing

Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 6:20 pm

Joined: Sun Nov 14, 2004 10:04 am

Posts: 263

Location: Toronto, Canada

Xsecrets:

Well, I'm a newbie, so I'm a bit nervous about deleting the symlink. I did check, however, and it is intact and seems to be functional.

Any other ideas?

Shplad

Xsecrets wrote:

do a ls -l in /usr/src and make sure that linux is a symlink to the actual kernel directory, you may even want to remove it and recreate it even if the link soes exist.

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shplad

Post subject: ivtv compile error-solved

Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 12:35 pm

Joined: Sun Nov 14, 2004 10:04 am

Posts: 263

Location: Toronto, Canada

To all who helped:

Thanks. In the end, it WAS in fact a symlink problem, but not the symlink mentioned here.

thanks

shplad

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