> I have a MVP Model 86019 Rev H3 Lot 4606. I seem to have worked my way > through a fair bit of the major grief and now my MVP is stuck at the > www.mvpmc.org splash screen with four red squares and three green ones. I > assume that this could be related to my dongle.bin.config file, but I > really > don't know. Here it is if someone can assist with some debugging that > would > be great!
This reminded me that there's no information out there on what these different coloured squares actually mean, so I spent a bit of time looking at the startup scripts and sticking some information on a wiki page: http://mvpmc.wikispaces.com/startup.sequence You're stuck somewhere between the 7th and 8th square there. It sounds like it's either the tftp or something in your dongle.config that is failing. Since the telnet server should already be running (that starts between square 6 and 7), I'd start by telnetting to your mvp (login as root, no password required). The first thing to do is have a look for your dongle.bin.config file. If this successfully TFTPd then it should be in /etc/dongle.config, so try taking a look at it: # cat /etc/dongle.config should show you the contents of your /etc/dongle.config. If it doesn't then there's likely a problem with your TFTP/DHCP setup, take a look at /etc/udhcpc.config, it should come out something like: # cat /etc/udhcpc.config DONGLE=/tftpboot/dongle.bin SERVER=192.168.0.50 IP=192.168.0.57 ETH=eth0 HNAME= NTP="" If SERVER (derived from DHCP's next-server parameter) isn't set to the IP address of the machine you're running the TFTP server on then the TFTP won't work. If DONGLE isn't set to the name of your config filename with the .config taken off the end, then your TFTP will fail. Your dongle.config all looks reasonably okay, apart from a couple of things: > rdate -s time-a.nist.gov Whilst this might work, rdate is no longer the recommended way of setting/keeping the time on your MVP correct. NTP is the prefered method. Simply setting: NTP=pool.ntp.org Should be sufficient to get that to work correctly. > echo "192.168.0.50 mythtv.local.com> mythtv ">>/etc/hosts I think you're probably looking for the following: echo "192.168.0.50 mythtv.local.com mythtv ">>/etc/hosts > mkdir /data > /etc/nfsmount.sh 192.168.0.50:/scott/home/data /data Shouldn't this be /home/scott/data not /scott/home/data? > mvpmc -f /etc/helvR10.fnt -y 192.168.0.50 -s 192.168.0.50 -r > /scott/home/data -t /usr/share/mvpmc/easy.xml --startup mythtv -u mythtv > -p > mythtv -T mythconverg --vlc 192.168.0.50 & The -r parameter should contain the local path where you mounted the remote directory, so where you wrote /scott/home/data here, you should have just written /data Wow lots of info and I think this newbie may have missed some of the meat, but here's what I got out of this... I am running Mandriva 2008 and as such my /tftpboot is actually in /var/lib/tftpboot. I sort of thought I may have issues here, but I couldn't figure out which one was right for my distro. I figured that I'd just copy the info to both places to be safe. With this I never really knew what was going on. I decided to delete the /tftpboot directory and work through the troubles. I had been following a howto site here: http://whypaythemtodoitforyou.blogspot.com/2007_09_01_archive.html and he mentioned some trouble with tftp not listening on ports 69 and 16869 and needed to make the following changes to the /etc/rc.d/rc.local file and add the following lines /usr/sbin/in.tftpd -l -a :16869 -s /tftpboot -v /usr/sbin/in.tftpd -l -a -s /tftpboot -v it finally donned on me to change it to this for Mandriva /usr/sbin/in.tftpd -l -a :16869 -s /var/lib/tftpboot -v /usr/sbin/in.tftpd -l -a -s /var/lib/tftpboot -v Suddenly everything starts to come together and I got past the splash screen. Now the next problem: I seem to have access to my backend and I can see a list of my recordings. When I choose one to watch on the MVP it reboots. What's up with that? It also complains that I need SQL access enabled on the server to watch live TV. Here is my current dongle.bin.config file. I am hoping that I edited it correctly based on the previous recommendations. echo "TZ='EST+5EDT,M3.2.0/2,M11.1.0/2; export TZ" > /etc/shell.config; NTP=pool.ntp.org mkdir /data /etc/nfsmount.sh 192.168.0.50:/home/scott/data /data mvpmc -f /etc/helvR10.fnt -y 192.168.0.50 -s 192.168.0.50 -r /data -t /usr/share/mvpmc/easy.xml --startup mythtv -u mythtv -p mythtv -T mythconverg --vlc 192.168.0.50 & Any thoughts? Scott -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Model-86019-Rev-H3-Lot-4606---Stuck-at-www.mvpmc.org-spash-tp16230768s24861p16241005.html Sent from the MediaMVP Media Center - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Mvpmc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mvpmc-users mvpmc wiki: http://mvpmc.wikispaces.com/
