[mythtv-users] Green screen AGAIN

Mark fairlane at voyager.net
Wed Jul 23 23:07:35 EDT 2003


Last night I wiped the database and channel listings, and reran 
mythfilldatabase.  It's back working again.
I sure wish I knew what was corrupting the database.  Does anyone else 
have this problem with power
outages?

Mark wrote:

> I haven't changed the resolution from 480x480, which is where it's 
> been working fine for a couple of weeks.
>
> I have a vague notion that it's permissions somewhere, but haven't 
> found it yet.
>
> Richard Schelin wrote:
>
>>
>> I had the green screen happen to me when I set the recording 
>> resolution to something that mythTV didn't like. (540 even).  I found 
>> that if I set it to 544 the green screen was replaced with the 
>> signal.  I still got audio, just no video.
>>
>> I'm not sure if this is your problem, but it's something to check.
>>
>> Rich
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Mark <fairlane at voyager.net> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm getting the green screen on recording and live tv again.  This 
>>> is after a power failure, and I verified that there were NOT 
>>> multiple copies of either frontend or backend running.  I tried 
>>> killing all myth processes, and running backend, then frontend from 
>>> separate console windows, and still had the green screen.  Corrupted 
>>> database due to the outage?  Any way to auto reset the database upon 
>>> booting, I get power failures fairly frequently, so I need to fix 
>>> this permanently.
>>
>>
>>
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