[mythtv-users] All my DVB Cards have broken!!!

[Per Öberg]

Hi
This might be a little out there but i say it anyway...
Does "reboot using power button" mean that you actually made the
computer completely powerless?

If not, try unplugging the power cord and wait for a while.

Regards Per Öberg

Per Öberg, Ph.D. Student
Address: Division of Vehicular Systems
Department of Electrical Engineering
Linköpings universitet
581 83 Linköping, SWEDEN
Phone: +46 (0)13-28 23 69
e-mail: oberg at isy.liu.se



David Whyte wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Yesterday whilst I was watching a recording on my remote FE and my BE
> was coming to the end of capturing another recording it crashed hard
> resulting in me doing a reboot using the power button.
>
> When I looked at the syslogs I saw that the end of the recording
> produced a while heap of...
>
> Oct  9 19:10:32 localhost kernel: [17264062.172000]
> mt352_read_register: readreg error (reg=15, ret==-5)
>
> ...but I assumed a reboot would have fixed it.  Tonight I come to look
> at my recorded programs and everything that should have recorded
> overnight results in Zero byte recordings and my syslog is full of the
> above messages.
>
> I fiddled with the antenna connection to no avail so gave the BE box
> another reboot.  Now, none of the DVB cards are initialising correctly
> and I get the following in the BE logs...
>
> Starting up as the master server.
> 2006-10-09 19:25:23.897 New DB connection, total: 2
> 2006-10-09 19:25:23.901 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
> 2006-10-09 19:25:23.905 mythbackend: MythBackend started as master server
> 2006-10-09 19:25:23.915 New DB connection, total: 3
> 2006-10-09 19:25:23.925 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
> 2006-10-09 19:25:23.933 DVB#0 ERROR - Opening DVB frontend device failed.
>           (2) No such file or directory
> 2006-10-09 19:25:23.936 Failed to locate input DVBInput
> 2006-10-09 19:25:23.939 DVB#0 ERROR - SetChannelByString(7): not open
> 2006-10-09 19:25:24.058 DVB#1 ERROR - Opening DVB frontend device failed.
>           (2) No such file or directory
> 2006-10-09 19:25:24.060 Failed to locate input DVBInput
> 2006-10-09 19:25:24.063 DVB#1 ERROR - SetChannelByString(10): not open
> 2006-10-09 19:25:24.076 TVRec(4) Error: Start channel from DB is
> empty, setting to '13' instead.
> 2006-10-09 19:25:24.090 DVB#2 ERROR - Opening DVB frontend device failed.
>           (2) No such file or directory
> 2006-10-09 19:25:24.091 Failed to locate input DVBInput
> 2006-10-09 19:25:24.096 DVB#2 ERROR - SetChannelByString(13): not open
>
> ...and mythtv-setup shows similar results.  If I try and start a
> recording, I also get similar results.
>
> These are Avermedia DVB-T 771's and nothing has changed with them and
> my BE has been flawless for many, many months.
>
> dmesg indicates that it finds the cards all OK...
>
> djwhyte at myth:/dev/dvb/adapter0$ dmesg | grep DVB
> [17179589.600000] bttv0: detected: AVermedia AverTV DVB-T 771
> [card=123], PCI subsystem ID is 1461:0771
> [17179589.600000] bttv0: using: AVerMedia AVerTV DVB-T 771
> [card=123,autodetected]
> [17179589.652000] bttv1: detected: AVermedia AverTV DVB-T 771
> [card=123], PCI subsystem ID is 1461:0771
> [17179589.652000] bttv1: using: AVerMedia AVerTV DVB-T 771
> [card=123,autodetected]
> [17179589.692000] bttv2: detected: AVermedia AverTV DVB-T 771
> [card=123], PCI subsystem ID is 1461:0771
> [17179589.692000] bttv2: using: AVerMedia AVerTV DVB-T 771
> [card=123,autodetected]
> [17179593.488000] DVB: registering new adapter (bttv0).
> [17179593.492000] DVB: registering new adapter (bttv1).
> [17179593.496000] DVB: registering new adapter (bttv2).
> djwhyte at myth:/dev/dvb/adapter0$
>
>
> The only updates that have been made to my Ubuntu Dapper box are
> official Dapper updates, which I did on Saturday night as follows....
>
> Commit Log for Sat Oct  7 11:48:02 2006
>
>
> Upgraded the following packages:
> cpio (2.6-10) to 2.6-10ubuntu0.2
> libavcodec-dev (3:0.cvs20050918-5ubuntu1) to 3:0.cvs20050918-5ubuntu1.1
> libssl0.9.7 (0.9.7g-5ubuntu1) to 0.9.7g-5ubuntu1.1
> libssl0.9.8 (0.9.8a-7ubuntu0.2) to 0.9.8a-7ubuntu0.3
> libxine-main1 (1.1.1+ubuntu2-7.2) to 1.1.1+ubuntu2-7.3
> openssl (0.9.8a-7ubuntu0.2) to 0.9.8a-7ubuntu0.3
> python2.4 (2.4.3-0ubuntu4) to 2.4.3-0ubuntu6
> python2.4-examples (2.4.3-0ubuntu4) to 2.4.3-0ubuntu6
> python2.4-gdbm (2.4.3-0ubuntu4) to 2.4.3-0ubuntu6
> python2.4-minimal (2.4.3-0ubuntu4) to 2.4.3-0ubuntu6
> python2.4-tk (2.4.3-0ubuntu4) to 2.4.3-0ubuntu6
>
> ...but I don't see anything that would effect the DVB cards.
>
> When I do a ls -al /dev/dvb I get the following...
>
> djwhyte at myth:/dev/dvb/adapter0$ ls -al /dev/dvb/
> total 0
> drwxr-xr-x  5 root root   100 2006-10-09 19:13 .
> drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 15240 2006-10-09 19:13 ..
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   100 2006-10-09 19:13 adapter0
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   100 2006-10-09 19:13 adapter1
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   100 2006-10-09 19:13 adapter2
>
> Does anyone have any idea what could have caused this issue?  I can't
> imagine it being an antenna thing since the cards appear broke.  I
> also imagine the cards are fairly OK since my BE is sat behind a UPS
> device so should not be affected by surges unless something came down
> the antenna itself, but our TVs are OK.
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated,
> Whytey
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