[mythtv-users] Has my DVB-S card died ?

[Pieter De Wit]

On 23/04/2012 18:34, Pieter De Wit wrote:
> Hi,
>
> For quite some time now I have used mythtv as my primary TV. Yesterday 
> I got LiveTV blacking out on me. I changed the permissions of 
> /var/lib/mythtv/livetv to 777 and it started working (I got errors 
> about deleting 0 MB chunks)
>
> Now, I see the following errors in the backend log:
>
> Apr 23 18:24:56 media mythbackend[2618]: W TVRecEvent 
> dvbchannel.cpp:347 (CheckFrequency) 
> DVBChan(6:/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0): Your frequency setting 
> (12483000) is out of range. (min/max:950000/2150000)
>
> This card was used to tune to this transponder.
>
> Here is some more errors when switching to LiveTV:
>
> Apr 23 18:29:25 media mythbackend[2618]: I ProcessRequest 
> mainserver.cpp:1360 (HandleAnnounce) MainServer::ANN Playback
> Apr 23 18:29:25 media mythbackend[2618]: I ProcessRequest 
> mainserver.cpp:1362 (HandleAnnounce) adding: media as a client 
> (events: 0)
> Apr 23 18:29:25 media mythbackend[2618]: I TVRecEvent tv_rec.cpp:1014 
> (HandleStateChange) TVRec(5): Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
> Apr 23 18:29:25 media mythbackend[2618]: I TVRecEvent tv_rec.cpp:3456 
> (TuningCheckForHWChange) TVRec(5): HW Tuner: 5->5
> Apr 23 18:29:25 media mythbackend[2618]: W TVRecEvent 
> dvbchannel.cpp:227 (Open) DVBChan(5:/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0): 
> Opening DVB frontend device failed.#012#011#011#011eno: Device or 
> resource busy (16)
> Apr 23 18:29:26  mythbackend[2618]: last message repeated 19 times
> Apr 23 18:29:26 media mythbackend[2618]: E TVRecEvent 
> dvbchannel.cpp:232 (Open) DVBChan(5:/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0): 
> Failed to open DVB frontend device due to fatal error or too many 
> attempts.
> Apr 23 18:29:26 media mythbackend[2618]: W TVRecEvent 
> dvbchannel.cpp:227 (Open) DVBChan(5:/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0): 
> Opening DVB frontend device failed.#012#011#011#011eno: Device or 
> resource busy (16)
> Apr 23 18:29:27  mythbackend[2618]: last message repeated 19 times
> Apr 23 18:29:27 media mythbackend[2618]: E TVRecEvent 
> dvbchannel.cpp:232 (Open) DVBChan(5:/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0): 
> Failed to open DVB frontend device due to fatal error or too many 
> attempts.
> Apr 23 18:29:27 media mythbackend[2618]: E TVRecEvent 
> dtvchannel.cpp:188 (SetChannelByString) 
> DTVChan(/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0): SetChannelByString(1): Channel 
> object will not open, can not change channels.
> Apr 23 18:29:27 media mythbackend[2618]: E TVRecEvent tv_rec.cpp:3642 
> (TuningFrequency) TVRec(5): Failed to set channel to 1. Reverting to 
> kState_None
> Apr 23 18:29:27 media mythbackend[2618]: I TVRecEvent tv_rec.cpp:1014 
> (HandleStateChange) TVRec(5): Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None
> Apr 23 18:29:35 media mythbackend[2141]: I HouseKeeping 
> housekeeper.cpp:225 (RunHouseKeeping) Running housekeeping thread
>
> Here is the log after a reboot:
>
> http://pastebin.com/ZinzgDsY
>
> # lspci
> 06:02.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant Systems, Inc. 
> CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio Decoder (rev 05)
> 06:02.1 Multimedia controller: Conexant Systems, Inc. CX23880/1/2/3 
> PCI Video and Audio Decoder [Audio Port] (rev 05)
> 06:02.2 Multimedia controller: Conexant Systems, Inc. CX23880/1/2/3 
> PCI Video and Audio Decoder [MPEG Port] (rev 05)
> 06:02.4 Multimedia controller: Conexant Systems, Inc. CX23880/1/2/3 
> PCI Video and Audio Decoder [IR Port] (rev 05)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Pieter
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Ok.....after a full re-install "all" is back to normal. Missing my theme 
I had (blue theme with black circles on it, but at least household is 
watching TV again :) )

Cheers List :)