[mythtvnz] Mythfrontend hangs hard when starting live tv

[Nick Rout]

On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 9:46 PM, Aaron Pelly <apelly at monkeymasters.co.nz> wrote:
> On 16/05/14 10:36, Aaron Pelly wrote:
>>
>> I have 2 hauppauge hvr 4000 dvb-s/s2/t cards in my backend (wtf?) I have
>> only set up two devices; 2 x dvb-s. I have had trouble setting up the
>> channels. I noticed that one of the discovered Prime channels seemed not
>> to tune, and caused the frontend (on the server) to hang (error: could
>> not read first 2048 megabytes) This required killing mythfrontend.real.
>> Subsequent attempts to watch live TV caused the same issue, presumably
>> as it attempts to start from the last channel watched. I'm guessing
>> here. The backend doesn't seem to complain. Maybe I should adjust some
>> timeout somewhere?
>>
>> If anyone could shed some light on this, or has a relevant
>> troubleshooting link handy, I would be grateful.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Aaron.
>>
>>
> Very wrong assumptions on my part.
>
> (and the error was actually 2048 bytes, not megabytes)
>
> Found this:
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/530123?do=post_view_threaded#530123
>
>> Found the problem. On my standalone frontend i had mapped a NFS share > to
>> my backend with the same path as the backend uses for recordings. > So i
>> guess the frontend tried to open the file "locally" instead of
>> communicating with the backend.
>>
>> Just have to change the sharename on the frontend.
>
> Although in my case it was a samba share. Dismounting it stops the problem.

Why are you mounting anything on your backend? It is not needed.