On Sat, March 10, 2007 8:56 am, Lan Barnes wrote: > > 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? > >
Reconfiguring my zap2it, deleting and reentering the video card, and re-running mythdatabasefill (as root) with mythbackend stopped _seems_ to have filled the database anew. The mfdb ran for a much longer time, indicating to me that it was downloading lots more channels. However, I can't confirm this because, after a reboot to get a clean image (_so_ M$, but what I do when I'm ignorant), the front end seems to work but when I try to look at the schedule in set recordings, the front end terminates itself w/o any warning or message. AFAICT from ps ax, no detritus is left behind, but I could have a poison file somewhere. Any hints? I really don't want to reinstall from the top, but I know that would work. But again, _so_ M$. I have my pride. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
