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<font size=3>Nick,<br><br>
1. Sorry about the size of the last post. <br><br>
2. I tried to install the FE and got hung up on mythtv-setup when
it did not provide the existing video sources or capture cards over the
network from the MBE or the SBE. At that point, I shut down the FE and
rebooted the SBE and MBE and the fun started. I have been working
with myth for 4 years, work in the computer industry, and am a reasonably
knowledgeable Fedora Linux person. Myth was running fine before I started
this and I saw no obvious errors. <br><br>
3. First I backed up mythconverg and then ran # mysqlcheck -u root
-p --repair mythconverg. Everything seems OK. <br><br>
4. I have run mythtv-setup on the MBE, deleted capture cards for both all
and for just the MBE, reinstalled the MBE capture card, deleted and
redefining the video sources, and reattached the video sources to the
capture card (PVR 500) and then rebooted. I have done this multiple times
in all the different ways I can think of. No change. <br><br>
5. All machines are running myth version 0.20.2-172<br><br>
I believe I have done the obvious stuff which is why I am a little
frustrated and looking at more drastic steps of preserving state and
doing a reinstall. Anything I missed?<br><br>
-- Mache<br><br>
At 08:08 AM 2/27/2008, Nick Morrott wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">On 27/02/2008, Mache Creeger
<mache@creeger.com> wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">The only thing I can think of at
this point is to reinstall myth from scratch. While I believe that the
capture card part of mythconverg has been corrupted in some way, all
recording and scheduled recording information seems intact. Since I have
about 800GB of recordings in /opt/store I would like to preserve its
mythconverg data and the scheduled recording mythconverg data in a new
myth installation.</blockquote><br>
Please trim your posts :)<br><br>
Before going down the full re-installation route, carry out the
following:<br><br>
i) detail the steps you followed when adding the dedicated frontend
-<br>
this _should_ be the easiest addition to an existing MythTV setup.
If<br>
you start up mythfrontend on the new machine in a terminal, are
there<br>
any obvious errors?<br><br>
ii) check your MythTV database to make sure it is healthy<br><br>
iii) in mythtv-setup, choose the 'Delete All Capture Cards' (*)
option<br>
on the Capture Cards page, and re-add your cards for each backend<br>
machine<br><br>
iv) in mythtv-setup, choose the 'Delete All Video Sources' (*)
option<br>
on the Video Sources page, and re-define your video sources on the<br>
master backend<br><br>
v) in mythtv-setup, re-attach your video sources to capture card<br>
inputs using the Input Connections page for each backend machine<br><br>
vi) on the new frontend, check your ~/.mythtv/mysql.txt file (if
using<br>
it) and make sure the settings are correct for the database<br><br>
vii) as Mike asked, are all of your machines running the same version of
MythTV?<br><br>
* If there are any bad data in the DB tables for these items,
choosing<br>
the Delete All option will forcibly empty the relevant tables in the<br>
database.<br><br>
-- <br><br>
Nick Morrott</font></blockquote></body>
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