[mythtv-users] cannot schedule recordings any more

[Carlos Puchol]

hi all,

i am having a problem where i updated mythtv to 0.20
and now, i cannot schedule recordings in the future.
i do not know how to actually debug this and i have
not seen related problems in the user list.

i built a myth box a little while ago, say, machine A,
roughly around march/april when fedora core 5 was released.

it was essentially fedora core 5 and myth rpms from
atrpms of myth-suite and related (ivtv modules and lirc
modules). it has the backend and the front end all in
the same machine.

i kept it up to date relatively often and things were
really smoth for a few months. about a week ago
i yum-updated the box and now things are a bit unstable.
(see the list of rpms at the bottom).

note that i am not 100% sure that the update was the problem,
as i also had to install a front end in another machine
(say machine B) to use the back end in machine A.
as part of that, i had to open the mysql permissions
wide open.

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON mythconverg.* TO 'mythtv'@'%'  IDENTIFIED BY 'mythtv';

also, all my future scheduled recordings 
dissapeared from the list of upcoming recordings around
that time.

i am not using machine B at the moment while i try
to debug this.

bottom line, the number one problem is that i cannot
go to the program guide and schedule stuff for recording.

when i try to schedule a program to be recorded, i press
in the [Save these settings] after setting the top
option to, say, "Record in this timeslot every day".
then i get the program guide right back, then very quickly,
the time at the top right (i am with mythcenter theme,
i believe, in case they differ), flashes quickly two or
three times, and that's it.

the program does not get the little circle
that indicates it will record.

however, i can press the record button when some program
is playing live in tv, and it will record it just fine.
note, however, that when i exit the live image and
i go to the "Watch recordings" ... then top one
(which is currently recording), used to be red, indicating
that it is recording at the moment, however, now
it's just white, like the rest of recordings from the past.

however, if i go to the program guide, now the program
that is recording live, has the little circle with an S,
indicating it is being recorded.

does that give enough clues to give some idea of what's wrong?

also, when i tried to schedule something, i tried it while
also running:

	tail -f /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log

however, nothing was diplayed at the time i went to the program
guide and tried to schedule something in the future.

i also noticed that there is a three or four pixel high
flickering bright blue line at the top.

also, the menus seem to be more lagging in some cases.

any ideas??

thanks!

-c
here is the list of myth rpms:

[22:23:34](1)pvr:~$ rpm -qa | grep myth
myththemes-0.20-110.at
mythtv-theme-purplegalaxy-0.20031214-4.at
mythtv-backend-0.20-142.fc5.at
mythgame-0.20-138.fc5.at
mythtv-theme-photo-4-7.at
mythtv-theme-visor-0.16.2-6.at
mythtv-0.20-142.fc5.at
mytharchive-0.20-138.fc5.at
mythmusic-0.20-138.fc5.at
mythtv-theme-sleek-0.35-3.at
mythtv-theme-ProjectGrayhem-1.7-2.at
mythtv-theme-abstract-0.20040910-3.at
mythtv-themes-0.20-142.fc5.at
mythdvd-0.20-138.fc5.at
mythflix-0.20-138.fc5.at
mythcontrols-0.20-138.fc5.at
mythplugins-0.20-138.fc5.at
mythtv-suite-0.20-62.at
mythstream-0.17_1-13.fc5.at
mythmkmovie-1.1.4-5.fc5.at
mythtv-frontend-0.20-142.fc5.at
mythgallery-0.20-138.fc5.at
mythvideo-0.20-138.fc5.at
mythnews-0.20-138.fc5.at
mythtv-setup-0.20-142.fc5.at
libmyth-0.20-142.fc5.at
mythbrowser-0.20-138.fc5.at
mythweather-0.20-138.fc5.at
mythtv-theme-MediaCenter-0.17-5.at
mythweb-0.20-88.at
mythphone-0.20-138.fc5.at