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The issue caused by the user-setting of systemd. I don't know why it works in shell as user hts but not in systemd as user hts but as long as it works (and tvheadend doesn't run as root) I'm fine:
working tvheadend.service (ubuntu LTS):
[Unit]
Description=tvheadend
Wants=network.target
[Service]
PIDFile=/run/tvheadend.pid
Type=simple
ExecStart=/usr/bin/tvheadend -s -c /data/hts/config -u hts -g hts -p /run/tvheadend.pid
Restart=always
RestartSec=3
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
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Hi,
I'm running tvheadend connected to a local CA-card via oscam, sat-ip receivers as source and RPI2/3 as clients.
Recently I updated to the most recent tvheadend version, updated the systemd-scripts and added a monit-config, to supervise tvheadend.
Now I can run tvheadend in console (as root or user hts) but not using systemd, because the latter seems to exit/crash.
I disabled caclient because starting with systemd even caused issues there - without any success.
[....]
Apr 14 07:50:24 hts tvheadend[13034]: mpegts: 11876H in Astra 19.2E (0x557118510730) - deleting
Apr 14 07:50:24 hts tvheadend[13034]: epgdb: save start
Apr 14 07:50:25 hts tvheadend[13034]: epgdb: stored (size 2877421)
Apr 14 07:50:25 hts tvheadend[13034]: STOP: Exiting HTS Tvheadend
root@hts:~# systemctl status tvheadend.service
● tvheadend.service - tvheadend
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/tvheadend.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: inactive (dead) since Fre 2017-04-14 07:50:25 CEST; 5min ago
Process: 13031 ExecStart=/bin/sh -c /usr/bin/tvheadend -f -s -c /data/hts/config -u hts -g hts -p /run/tvheadend.pid -a -1 --satip_xml http://10.19.11.10:8080/desc.xml --satip
Main PID: 13031 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
The config files:
[Unit]
Description=tvheadend
Wants=network.target
[Service]
User=hts
PIDFile=/run/tvheadend.pid
Type=simple
# BusName=org.tvheadend.server
ExecStart=/usr/bin/tvheadend -f -s -c /data/hts/config -u hts -g hts -p /run/tvheadend.pid -a -1 --satip_xml http://10.19.11.10:8080/desc.xml --satip_xml http://10.19.12.10:8080/desc.xml --satip_xml http://10.19.13.50:80/rootDescr
# Restart=always
# RestartSec=9
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Is there anything I missed? Might it be a bug in the latest tvheadend version?
kind regards
Robert Cameron
In your unit file, you are forking/daemonizing the tvheadend process, but you do not have the "Type" set to "forking". Try changing it from "simple" to "forking".
I could be wrong, but that's how my unit file is set up, and I don't have any problems with it ...
joky joky
hi!
thank you for your response, but it was forking before :-(
regards
Joe User
Upgraded from what version?
It seems to be exiting, not crashing. Need more of tvheadend log to see why it is exiting...
Does it automatically get restarted?
Joe User
joky joky wrote:
>[Service]
>User=hts
BTW - if you already initially run the tvheadend as user hts, you should not specify -u hts -g hts.
joky joky
Hi Joe User,
removing "User=hts" resolved that issue! See updated post above
