On Sat, March 10, 2007 8:19 am, Gus Wirth wrote: > Lan Barnes wrote: >> On Fri, March 9, 2007 6:43 pm, Lan Barnes wrote: >>> MythTV was working beautifully, so we went from Basic Cable to Extended >>> (no box, 2 - 99). I closed the front end, did MythSetup, and rescanned >>> the >>> channels (or thought I did). The scan looked feeb and scanned from 4 to >>> 13. >>> >>> Didn't make any sense. As I exited, it said to run mythfilldb, so I did >>> as >>> user mythtv. Then when I went into the channel guide, it was all >>> screwed >>> up. Has 13 as KPBS and 11 as KUSI. >>> >>> I reran mythfilldb as root (superstitious) with no change. >>> >>> What have I done to myself? >>> >>> Two real questions: >>> >>> 1. how do I scan the real channels >>> >>> 2. how do I fix the database >>> >> >> I'm beginning to think I'd do best to >> >> 1. exit myth >> >> 2. re-run the sql script to initialize the data base >> >> 3. set up again. >> >> If you Myth gurus (Gus, Josh, anyone) agree, remind me of the sql >> script's >> name and I'm off to the races. >> >> Fortunately, nothing important is recorded ... yet. > > Did you go to the Zap2It site <http://labs.zap2it.com> and change your > cable lineup description to reflect the fact you are now on extended > cable? >
No! I'll do it > Also, when you re-initialize the DB you need to make sure that > mythbackend is NOT running. > Ah ha! Obvious, and yet I missed in. How does one exit the back end? I'm guessing service stop mythtv or whatever. > Gus > ... the guy who knows. Thanks. More to try. BTW, the Cox guy is going to come in the house. Should I hide the Myth box? -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
