[mythtv-users] Tuner Unavailable

[Phil Bridges]

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 11:41 AM, Mache Creeger <mache at creeger.com> wrote:
>
>  Nick,
>
>  1.  Sorry about the size of the last post.
>
>  2.  I tried to install the FE and got hung up on mythtv-setup when it did
> not provide the existing video sources or capture cards over the network
> from the MBE or the SBE. At that point, I shut down the FE and rebooted the
> SBE and MBE and the fun started.  I have been working with myth for 4 years,
> work in the computer industry, and am a reasonably knowledgeable Fedora
> Linux person. Myth was running fine before I started this and I saw no
> obvious errors.
>
>  3.  First I backed up mythconverg and then ran # mysqlcheck -u root -p
> --repair mythconverg. Everything seems OK.
>
>  4. I have run mythtv-setup on the MBE, deleted capture cards for both all
> and for just the MBE, reinstalled the MBE capture card, deleted and
> redefining the video sources, and reattached the video sources to the
> capture card (PVR 500) and then rebooted. I have done this multiple times in
> all the different ways I can think of. No change.
>
>  5. All machines are running myth version 0.20.2-172
>
>  I believe I have done the obvious stuff which is why I am a little
> frustrated and looking at more drastic steps of preserving state and doing a
> reinstall.  Anything I missed?
>
>  -- Mache
>
>
>
>  At 08:08 AM 2/27/2008, Nick Morrott wrote:
>
> On 27/02/2008, Mache Creeger <mache at creeger.com> wrote:
>
> The only thing I can think of at this point is to reinstall myth from
> scratch. While I believe that the capture card part of mythconverg has been
> corrupted in some way, all recording and scheduled recording information
> seems intact. Since I have about 800GB of recordings in /opt/store I would
> like to preserve its mythconverg data and the scheduled recording
> mythconverg data in a new myth installation.
>  Please trim your posts :)
>
>  Before going down the full re-installation route, carry out the following:
>
>  i) detail the steps you followed when adding the dedicated frontend -
>  this _should_ be the easiest addition to an existing MythTV setup. If
>  you start up mythfrontend on the new machine in a terminal, are there
>  any obvious errors?
>
>  ii) check your MythTV database to make sure it is healthy
>
>  iii) in mythtv-setup, choose the 'Delete All Capture Cards' (*) option
>  on the Capture Cards page, and re-add your cards for each backend
>  machine
>
>  iv) in mythtv-setup, choose the 'Delete All Video Sources' (*) option
>  on the Video Sources page, and re-define your video sources on the
>  master backend
>
>  v) in mythtv-setup, re-attach your video sources to capture card
>  inputs using the Input Connections page for each backend machine
>
>  vi) on the new frontend, check your ~/.mythtv/mysql.txt file (if using
>  it) and make sure the settings are correct for the database
>
>  vii) as Mike asked, are all of your machines running the same version of
> MythTV?
>
>  * If there are any bad data in the DB tables for these items, choosing
>  the Delete All option will forcibly empty the relevant tables in the
>  database.
>
>  --
>
>  Nick Morrott

Did you delete "all capture cards" or "all capture cards on <master backend>"?

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