[mythtv-users] Confused.

Brad Fuller bradallenfuller at yahoo.com
Mon Apr 10 17:20:21 UTC 2006


clemens at dwf.com wrote:
> Im a bit confused about whats going on behind my back in MythTV.
>
> A week/10days ago, I got MythTV working for the first time.
> I could Watch TV, I could record, I could watch the previously recorded 
> programs.
> Everything seemed just fine.
>
> Then I had to shutdown MythTV, I probably rebooted the machine.
> When I restarted the machine, restarted mythbackend, restarted mythfrontend,
> I would get to the screen with the 'Watch TV' line on it, but selecting it 
> would just
> cause it to blink.
> As far as I could tell MythTV was dead.
>
> OK, I went away to a meeting for a week, just for grins I left mythfrontend 
> running.
>
> I came back yesterday, and took a look at MythTV today.
> Programs that I had requested had recorded (this was not surprising).
>
> BUT, and this was/is a surprise, selecting 'Watch TV' now works again.
> I was assuming that I was going to have to rebuild the database, but Ive done 
> nothing.
>
> So, any thoughts on whats going on here?
> If its hapened once, Im sure it will happen again, and I would like to know 
> whats
> wrong/what to do, rather than just waiting a week for things to get better ...
>
> ((This is all built from the SVN repository of 10days-2weeks ago))
>
>   
do you have yum update running in the background as a service? If so,
maybe ivtv or <whatever> has been updated.



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