Hi,

I have upgraded from R4V5 to R5A12. I was able to setup my wireless card (MA311) and I am pinging outside world just fine. KnoppMyth runs on one machine (front+back). Now the problems:

1. I am constantly getting "Cannot connect to master backend" errors. IP of the machine is fine, weather works, news work but I cannot watch TV.

2. I am linux noob and I need a step by step instructions on how to get the Lirc to compile under R5A12. I have followed instructions on knoppwiki but they reference to a different kernel source which gets me lost.

3. For some reason the menus under my gallery do not work (they are not accessible). I am only able to browse one picture at the time.

Please help.
Drabina

1. Have you taken a look to see why you cannot connect to the backend? I'm guessing the backend is dying for some reason. Have you taken a look at the backend log?

2. No one can give step by step instructions if you don't give enough hardware information. The process of recompiling LIRC on version prior to R5 is the same as it is on R5. Uncompile the kernel and lirc source. CD to lirc source, ./setup, make and make install.

3. No comment at this time.

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cesman

When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!

3. Might be as simple as pressing M (to access the menu first) then use the arrow keys.

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Gnarl: Thanks. It worked.

Cesman: Where do I find the log file? My /var/log/mythtv/ directory is empty. search for backend* returns no log files.

I got the backend running by starting it manually. Unfortunately it does not start automatically when I reboot the machine.

Drabina

It should be in /var/log/mythtv/. /etc/init.d/mythtv-backend restart does? Take a look at the log after this...

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cesman

When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!

When linux boots I can see something about

mythbackend.log - permission denied

but it goes too fast for me to check the details. Maybe that's why the log does not gets created. Starting backend from terminal works but it does not start when I reboot.

/var/log/mythtv/ is still empty

Drabina

You have file permission problems. First thing to check is that there's only one myth user/group in /etc/passwd and /etc/group. There are a couple recent threads that discuss this... Searching for /etc/passwd should find it...

Hi,

Thanks for all the replies. I was able to determine that I had two mythtv users in my /etc/passwd and /etc/group files. I have deleted the 1000 user leaving 150. Now I see that all the directories under /myth are owned by user 1000. How do I fix it? I know about chown command and I tried:
chown -R mythtv /myth
but it does not change the user id (1000).

Thanks,
Maurycy

You misread the chown man page. What you meant was this:

However that's not what you really want to do which is make everything owned by UID 1000 owned by the good mythtv user. For that you should do this:

There is also a bogus GID (check your /etc/group file and fill in the bad one below), which you should fix like this:

BTW - You'll need to run both of those as root. And READ THE MAN PAGE and think about what you're doing. If you don't understand how these commands work there are all kinds of horrible ways to screw up.