[mythtv-users] Problems with clean install

[David Watkins]

On 26/01/2010, Ben Edwards <list4me2 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> My myth install which I have had for around 5 years went horribly
>  wrong so I decided to start from scratch.  I have installed mythubuntu
>  9.10.  I followed all the instructions and set up the 2 Nova-T DVB
>  cards as 'DVB DTV capture card (3.x)' and managed to successfuly scan
>  and find the channels.
>
>  The devices for the cards are:
>  /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0
>  /dev/dvb/adapter1/frontend0
>
>  When exit mythtv-setup I get a warning saying:
>
>  Card 1 (type DVBInput) is set to start on channel Please add, which
>  does not exist.
>  Card 2 (type DVBInput) is set to start on channel Please add, which
>  does not exist.
>  Card 3 (type DVBInput) is set to start on channel Please add, which
>  does not exist.
>
>  Not sure what this means, cant find where to set start channel and !
>  only have 2 cards.I answer 'no, I know what I am doing'.
>
>  There however seems to be some type of problems with the cards, I cant
>  Watch TV and I get the following in the backend log:
>
>  2010-01-26 22:42:48.564 mythbackend version:
>  branches/release-0-22-fixes [22594] www.mythtv.org
>  2010-01-26 22:42:48.621 Using runtime prefix = /usr
>  2010-01-26 22:42:48.662 Using configuration directory = /home/mythtv/.mythtv
>  2010-01-26 22:42:48.704 Empty LocalHostName.
>  2010-01-26 22:42:48.745 Using localhost value of pilger
>  2010-01-26 22:42:48.798 New DB connection, total: 1
>  2010-01-26 22:42:48.843 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
>  2010-01-26 22:42:48.880 Closing DB connection named 'DBManager0'
>  2010-01-26 22:42:48.914 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
>  2010-01-26 22:42:48.951 Current MythTV Schema Version (DBSchemaVer): 1244
>  2010-01-26 22:42:48.990 MythBackend: Starting up as the master server.
>  2010-01-26 22:42:49.035 New DB connection, total: 2
>  2010-01-26 22:42:49.072 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
>  2010-01-26 22:42:49.136 New DB connection, total: 3
>  2010-01-26 22:42:49.180 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
>  2010-01-26 22:42:49.232 DVBChan(1:/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0) Error:
>  SetChannelByString(Please add): CheckChannel failed.
>                         Please verify the channel in the 'mythtv-setup' Channel Editor.
>  2010-01-26 22:42:49.289 ChannelBase(1) Warning: Setting start channel
>  'Please add' failed,
>                         selected to 'Please add' on input 'DVBInput' instead.
>  2010-01-26 22:42:49.360 DVBChan(2:/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0) Error:
>  SetChannelByString(Please add): CheckChannel failed.
>                         Please verify the channel in the 'mythtv-setup' Channel Editor.
>  2010-01-26 22:42:49.431 ChannelBase(2) Warning: Setting start channel
>  'Please add' failed,
>                         selected to 'Please add' on input 'DVBInput' instead.
>  2010-01-26 22:42:49.505 DVBChan(3:/dev/dvb/adapter1/frontend0) Error:
>  SetChannelByString(Please add): CheckChannel failed.
>                         Please verify the channel in the 'mythtv-setup' Channel Editor.
>  2010-01-26 22:42:49.550 ChannelBase(3) Warning: Setting start channel
>  'Please add' failed,
>                         selected to 'Please add' on input 'DVBInput' instead.
>  2010-01-26 22:42:49.615 New DB scheduler connection
>  2010-01-26 22:42:49.654 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
>  2010-01-26 22:42:49.725 MediaServer:: Loopback address specified -
>  127.0.0.1. Disabling UPnP
>  2010-01-26 22:42:49.777 Main::Registering HttpStatus Extension
>  2010-01-26 22:42:49.827 Enabled verbose msgs:  important general
>  2010-01-26 22:42:49.872 AutoExpire: CalcParams(): Max required Free
>  Space: 1.0 GB w/freq: 15 min
>  2010-01-26 22:42:52.715 Reschedule requested for id -1.
>  2010-01-26 22:42:52.826 Scheduled 0 items in 0.1 = 0.04 match + 0.07 place
>  2010-01-26 22:42:52.884 Seem to be woken up by USER
>
>  Any ideas?
>  Ben

I'd be inclined to start mythtv-setup again and delete all your
capture cards and reinstall them.  If mythtv is reporting 3 cards when
you only have two then that's likely to lead to problems.