[mythtv-users] Is this database corruption?

Mark Perkins perkins1724 at hotmail.com
Wed Apr 29 05:30:03 UTC 2015



> On 29 Apr 2015, at 12:42 pm, "James Miller" <gajs-f0el at dea.spamcon.org> wrote:
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> I've noted some oddities in the TV schedule on my newly-installed MythTV (0.27..20140303-1 Gentoo), and even had a recording fail owing to what I believe was a schedule glitch. I'm wondering whether my database might have gotten corrupted somehow. I'm a schedules direct subscriber, by the way.
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> Here are some symptoms. First, I see that channel listings can display programming from other channels. In some previous testing I noted, for example, that sometimes under channel 4_1 I see programming for channel 41 (that does not seem to be the case at the moment). Another thing I'm seeing is that a program's title and description do not match. An example would be a recording currently in the database whose title is "Knit and Crochet Now!" but whose description reads "Green Paths - Mon, Denmark: Host Claus Meyer visits the white-cliffed island of Mon, in the south of Denmark, on a crisp and clear winter day. There, he makes vitamin-packed juice and cooks codfish on the beach. Recipes: Raw Winter Vegetable Juice; Roast Leg of Goat with Blue Cheese, Herb Salad, Hazelnuts and Green Kale Dressing; Steamed Cod Fillet with Fried Cod Roe, Winter Leeks and Apples." Clearly there is some error here. Finally, over the past weekend I found in the schedule a program I wanted to record, selected it, and opted for "record only this showing." Later, when the recording should have been in progress, I noted the tuner was not active. When I went to check on why it was not recording, there was a message to the effect that it was not recording because the program was "not listed." Fortunately it was early enough in the showing that I could just reschedule it.
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> Are these indications that the database has gotten corrupted? I tried already, many times while going through the initial set-up, deleting, then reconfiguring capture cards and downloading schedule information anew. Could something have gotten corrupted in that process? This is still a pretty new installation, by the way. So I would have no problem deleting the whole MythTV configuration and starting over afresh. Input will be appreciated.
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Just to clarify, did you try deleting all capture cards on all hosts or just the current host. And did you delete and recreate all the video sources?

I'm assuming it's a new install but a migrated database.


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