[mythtv-users] "bad ANN query" and other problems plagueing my backend and making it crash

[Chris]

I have a bttv based card and a pvr-250. It was all working fine until I dumped 
the database to try and fix an error with the pvr-250 not changing channels 
to record. 
Here's some output from starting mythbackend on the command line:
Starting up as the master server.
2004-06-16 22:41:15 mythbackend version: 0.15.20040525-1 www.mythtv.org
2004-06-16 22:41:15 Enabled verbose msgs : important general
2004-06-16 22:41:17 Found changes in the todo list.
2004-06-16 22:41:17 Scheduled 32 items in 0.086056 seconds.
2004-06-16 22:41:17 Seem to be woken up by USER
2004-06-16 22:41:40 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2004-06-16 22:41:40 adding: 0 as a client (events: 0)
2004-06-16 22:41:41 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2004-06-16 22:41:41 adding: 0 as a client (events: 0)
2004-06-16 22:41:41 Bad ANN query
2004-06-16 22:41:49 unknown socket
2004-06-16 22:41:49 Unknown file transfer socket: 0


and then it craps out.

Here's from the backend.log file:

2004-06-16 18:40:16 mythbackend version: 0.15.20040525-1 www.mythtv.org
2004-06-16 18:40:16 Enabled verbose msgs : important general
2004-06-16 18:40:18 Found changes in the todo list.
2004-06-16 18:40:19 Scheduled 32 items in 1.37581 seconds.
2004-06-16 18:40:19 Seem to be woken up by USER
2004-06-16 18:54:10 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2004-06-16 18:54:10 adding: 0 as a client (events: 0)
2004-06-16 18:54:12 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2004-06-16 18:54:12 adding: 0 as a client (events: 0)
2004-06-16 18:54:12 Bad ANN query
2004-06-16 18:54:20 unknown socket
2004-06-16 18:54:20 Unknown file transfer socket: 0
QSettings: error creating /.qt
QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty
QSettings: error creating /.qt
QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty
QSettings: error creating /.qt
QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty
QSettings: error creating /.qt
QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty
QSettings: error creating /.qt
QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty
QSettings: error creating /.qt
QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty
QSettings: error creating /.qt
QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty
Starting up as the master server.
QSettings: error creating /.qt
QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty
QSettings: error creating /.qt
QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty

It dies both times.

Any help would be appreciated

Chris