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What does installing Firefox have to do with getting the log files?! Perhaps a search of the forum.

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cesman

When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!

I could just sit and think of that statement for a day or two

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Suggestion:

1) Install PuTTY (the SSH client) on your windows machine.
2) ssh into the knoppmyth box as root.
3) Find the files and view using more.
4) Copy/Paste from putty.

Seriously, I used a separate machine as much as possible to configure/debug things outside of the mythtv interface on the myth box. It allows you to keep your troubleshooting "context" and change settings/reboot/etc without pulling your hair out.

-brendan

Did you search all terms for install firefox?

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cesman

When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!

a usefull command is:





see what pops up.

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I have the same problem (back-end crashing, not installing firefox).

I've serached the forums up and down and can't find anything on it.

The lowdown:
The install seemed to go perfect (just a minor tweak to XF86Config-4 to reduce the screen resolution to what my monitor can handle). When I try to do anything in the frontend that requires a back-end connection (watch TV, schedule recordings, exit, adjust settings) it pauses for 15-20 seconds, then dumps me back into the main menu with the error message

"Could not connect to the master backend server -- Is it running? Is the IP address set for it in the setup program correct?"

The answers to these are:
1. No, it crashed.
2. yes, 127.0.0.1 (also tried localhost and the actual IP number: 192.168.0.2)

Any clues for a n00b like me? I had MythTv running on it before over FC3 but couldn't get LIRC to work. Some friends in another forum suggest KnoppMyth cause it worked for them.

Thanks in advance.

-Ab

ps. where can I find the logs that might tell me why things are crashing?

http://www.knoppmythwiki.org/faq/index.php?action=artikel&cat=374472&id=29&artlang=en

Hi,
Please give some hardware details when you have problems. The size of the hard drive can leave issues with the cache which sometimes can snow ball error logs into filling the root partition.

http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q ... as_qdr=all

Strongly suggest that you put the link in a safe location as it is getting hard to find. (should be a front page sticky ?)

To install a browser, use apt-get
apt-get update
apt-get -y install mozilla #I don't care for firefox

when it asks you select auto. Will appear in the App > Net when you right click on the desktop after the install.
I use "freemind" to browse my machine.
Mike

No listing for crashes or anything. Seems as if the backend is just terminating. Here's some observations:

1. It ONLY seems to crash when I try to watch live TV or use the program browser to schedule recordings. (haven't really had a chance to try much else)
2. If I restart it using '/etc/init.d/mythtv-backend start' the same thing will happen,
3. THOUGH, If I start it using 'mythbackend &' as root in a console window, it will work just fine. I can watch TV, schedule, etc... with no problems until I have to reboot.

It seems to me that the problem of the backend crashing seem to be from the daemon starting the backend rather than manual start. Could it also be a permissions issue?

The cache is working fine once I start the backend (I made the partition 3 gigs bigger than the ricng cache limit just to eliminate that as an issue). None of my disks are close to max ('df -h' and 'df -i').

I'm using an AMD Athlon 1Gig processor, 768M ram, Hauppage 350-FM, and an Nvidia 440 video card.

Thanks in advance for the help.

-Ab

Hi abmoraz.
Not sure which version you are trying run however a couple of things that could be an issue.

When you did the install, the user name you chose was NOT mythtv, right? mythtv user is predefined and can not be duplicated. Will cause lots of grief....

You did go through all the setup screens and checked to have the correct paths to be /myth/tv and /cache/cache ?

Your cache size in the menu is smaller than the actual df -h size for cache? Not quite sure what you ment by "cache limit"...

At least you have a couple areas to investigate. Do the music, weather, news and other choices seem to work ok?

Mike