[mythtv-users] Can't playback recorded shows but preview works - SOLVED

[Misty P]

Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 05/07/2008 10:52 PM, Mike Wright wrote:
>> This can be solved by running the following in a terminal:
>>     dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
>>
>> Set you timezone correctly and the problem is gone.  I ran into this
>> problem because I'm using mythbuntu-diskless.  The diskless image for
>> the fron end lacked the timezone info but the back end was correct.
>> Since there was a time mismatch, the front end decided that
>> recordings did not exist.
>
> Heh.  That's the exact problem I'm currently working on solving (in
> #5319), but I didn't think of it when I saw your post.  I hope in 0.22
> we'll have it working so if you start a frontend or slave backend
> whose time zone differs from that of the master backend, it will exit
> with a useful error message saying that you need to fix your time zone
> configuration.

Playing devil's advocate, wouldn't it be more useful to spit up a box asking 
if you wanted to continue and inherit the backend's TZ, or quit?  (I'm 
thinking of a really broken distro that's on a RO filesystem, such as a 
DVD-R, that's otherwise correct.)