[mythtv-users] need help with sudden loss of scheduling data (HDHR & SD)..

[Michael T. Dean]

On 11/29/2012 12:25 PM, Wes Hardaker wrote:
> While away on vacation suddenly my backend stopped having anything in
> the schedule at all.  I have 2 HDHR boxes connected for OTA support and
> pulling data from schedules direct.  But suddenly, no matter what I do,
> I can no longer get any scheduling data.  I've tried removing all
> inputs/sources/etc in mythtv-setup and starting from scratch (at least 3
> times) without success.

I hope you used "Delete all video sources" and "Delete all capture 
cards" (not "Delete all capture cards on <hostname>") or the delete and 
re-create wouldn't help.

> Anyone have any suggestions on how to get mythfilldatabase to give
> debugging info about what it's actually doing so I can figure out why
> either it or the grabber isn't successfully getting data?  The xmltvids
> match appropriately, etc, so it should work but I can't figure out
> what's going wrong.  -v ALL --loglevel debug don't seem to print
> anything helpful.
>
> [Fedora 16, with 0.25...  I should probably update to F17/0.26 but then
> I need to deal with self-building a kernel to remove the video
> studdering issues present in the newer kernels because of that silly
> patch fedora added to the kernels]

Start with a default-verbosity log of a mythfilldatabase run and, 
probably, a default-verbosity log of mythbackend startup and it will 
likely provide answers or--if nothing else--point us to a better set of 
logging options to use.

Mike