[mythtv-users] Still tearing my hair out with Myth 0.21 on Fedora 11

[Another Sillyname]

2009/10/7 Chris Jones <chris at mollingtonconsultants.com>:
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-
>> bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Another Sillyname
>> Sent: 07 October 2009 5:56 PM
>> To: Discussion about mythtv
>> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Still tearing my hair out with Myth 0.21 on
>> Fedora 11
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>> Doesn't matter about the rounding up, as long as they're pretty close.
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>> OK Now here we go.....
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>> Firstly shut down your mythbackend
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>> Keeping the data from the scan to hand....in a 'normal user' session
>> run mythtv-setup
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>> option 5 -->  Channel Editor
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>> Delete ALL the channels currently in the system
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>> Click Transport Editor and see if the values from the scan file match
>> the values for the Mux's here.
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>> If they do....
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>> Just do a normal full scan
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>> if they don't
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>> delete the mux's where the values are wrong
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>> if you end up deleting ALL the muxs jump to option2 below.
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>> option1 - Assuming you haven't deleted all the Mux's then do a full
>> scan and keep an eye on where you get channel locks, if you compare
>> those channels with the frequencies you got from your scan earlier
>> they should match.
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>> option2 - If you've deleted ALL the Mux's do the following.
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>> Choose --> Channel Scanner --> Scan Type: Full Scan (Tuned) --> Now
>> enter a valid data set from your scan file and repeat for all the
>> other Mux's from your scan.
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>> That's it hopefully, let us know what happens now.
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> The answer is that I kept getting mythtv-setup crashing before it had
> finished scanning, usually with seg faults, but not every time. Now I have
> re-installed MythTV and now it freezes EVERY time, meaning I then have to
> kill mythtv-setup.
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> The program appears to be generating all sorts of display errors which I
> cannot see the point of, like:-
> X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)3
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> Chris Jones
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Chris

The errors you're now describing are somewhat out of the scope of what
you were originally describing.

If you are having hardware problems you need to address them first
before dealing with tuning errors.