[mythtv-users] And the bonehead award goes to...ME!

[Jason Elwell]

That is almost as bad is what I did last week.  I manually ran 
mythfilldatabase and kept getting a bunch of 'table not found' errors.  
I logged in mysql to diagnos the problem  which wasnt much help.  I 
figured I must have corrupted the database during a recent hard reboot.  
Anyways a dropped the database and when I went to re-install a fresh 
copy, again I was getting errors. 
At about this time I realized that there was absolutely nothing wrong 
with my Myth database and that the reason for the errors was that the 
hard drive had filled up.  Boy I felt stupid and ended up losing  my 
entire myth database including show information for dozens of recorded 
programs :(

Lesson learned

-Jason


PAUL WILLIAMSON wrote:

>I fixed my mysterious video channel tuning problem.
>
>I have a VCR inline to the PVR-250 to make recordings 
>of all my video tapes and had forgotten about it when 
>Myth went to record a channel on Friday.  When I came 
>home Friday to check the new scheduled recordings, 
>they were all fuzz.  I spent the entire weekend doing 
>Bare Metal installations of FC2 and MythTV.  Using Jarod's 
>guide and Axel's RPMs, I got it down to about 3 hours.
>After the 5th time, I decided to walk away.  I had to work 
>at the Buffalo Bills game on Sunday, so I just figured 
>I'd get some separation to think about what might have 
>gone wrong.
>
>Let's just say it was divine intervention.  It dawned on 
>me when I was in church Sunday morning before going 
>to the game that I had probably left the VCR on and 
>had forgotten to turn it off Thursday night after making 
>a mpg recording from Happy Thanksgiving, Charlie Brown.
>
>As soon as I got hom from working the game, I turned 
>off the VCR, finished up configuring Myth for the 6th 
>time in 2 days, and voila!,I was able to watch TV 
>and record stuff as clear as a bell.  
>
>What an idiot I am...thanks for all the help many of 
>you diplomatically offered that explained I either have 
>a bad card, the cable went bad, etc.  As I've told 
>many people before - PEBCAK.
>
>I had a very good laugh at my own expense...LOL!
>
>Paul
>
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