<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>There was a power cut at home while I was at work. I came back, restarted the myth box and the frontend showed a white screen. Attempting to restart frontend and/or backend didn't work. Neither did rebooting the machine again. So I decided to restore the latest backup (I have a daily backup from a cron job.) However, when I run the restore command, it gets stuck at "dropping database", which shouldn't be the most time-consuming action.<br><br></div>What should I do?<br></div>I have tried running the below both before and after a <br>  sudo service mythtv-backend stop<br></div>but it made no difference.<br><div><div><div><br><a href="http://mythconverg_restore.pl">mythconverg_restore.pl</a> --drop_database --create_database --verbose --filename  mythconverg-1317-20150220033002.sql.gz <br><br>Configuring environment:<br>  -    username: tv<br>  -        HOME: /home/tv<br>  - MYTHCONFDIR: /home/tv/.mythtv<br><br>Parsing configuration files:<br>  - checking: /home/tv/.mythtv/config.xml<br>     parsing: /home/tv/.mythtv/config.xml<br>  - checking: /home/tv/.mythtv/backuprc<br>     parsing: /home/tv/.mythtv/backuprc<br><br>Applying command-line arguments.<br><br>Checking configuration.<br><br>Database Information:<br>         DBHostName: localhost<br>             DBPort: 3306<br>         DBUserName: mythtv<br>         DBPassword: XXX<br>             DBName: mythconverg<br>        DBSchemaVer: <br>  DBBackupDirectory: /mnt/st4000b6/mythtv/db_backups/<br>   DBBackupFilename: mythconverg-1317-20150220033002.sql.gz<br>      drop_database: yes<br>    create_database: yes<br><br>Executables:<br>       mysql_client: mysql<br>         uncompress: gzip -d<br><br>Miscellaneous:<br>    partial_restore: no<br>   restore_xmltvids: no<br>    change_hostname: no<br><br>Checking database.<br><br>Preparing initial database.<br>Dropping database.<br><br><br></div></div></div></div>