[mythtv-users] Nooby with serious problems

[Robert Denier]

First off you need to determine just what is crashing.  I'd ignore the
guide issue until you fixed that one, unless perhaps your attempts to
figure out the guide have introduced the problem..?

Can you run a backend on one machine and a frontend on another?  The
backend may have to run as root, because of the video capture, although
I haven't tried it as a user.  The frontend should, in general, be run
as a normal user, and if it runs on a separate machine it should not
be able to crash the machine that way.  If it does you likely have
hardware problems.  (The program may crash of course.)

I suggest giving a detailed hardware list of what your running on as
well as your distribution of linux.  Running memtest86 to check for
memory errors never hurts as well.

Also run 'lspci -v' from root and see what you get.  Sometimes cards
that share irq's do not get along well and moving them to a different
slot can help, but only sometimes.

At any rate there really isn't enough info to solve your crashing
problem here I don't think.

On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 21:58 +0000, Simon wrote:
> Hi,
> I have two unrelated problems (I think) that need help.
> 
> I have setup my TV card OK, but when i try to run TV through mythtv, the 
> screen goes blank, I can hear sound, and everything hangs (have to force 
> reboot to restart).
> 
> Secondly, I am trying to fill in the program database manually as i live in 
> Belgium.  I've pasted a section of the file i am trying to use with 
> 
>   <channel id="rtl-tvi">
>     <icon src="http://www.teveblad.be/gfx/logos/RTL-TVI.gif">
>     </icon>
>     <display-name>rtl-tvi</display-name>
>   </channel>
>   <channel id="raiuno">
>     <icon src="http://www.teveblad.be/gfx/logos/RAIUNO.gif">
>     </icon>
>     <display-name>raiuno</display-name>
>   </channel>
>   <programme start="200503030700 +0100" stop="200503030855 +0100" 
> channel="france3">
>     <title>France truc</title>
>     <category>tekenfilm kind</category>
>   </programme>
>   <programme start="200503030600 +0100" stop="200503030700 +0100" 
> channel="france3">
>     <title>Euronews</title>
>     <category>nieuws</category>
>   </programme>
>  
> Then I have:
> 
> mythfilldatabase --file 1 -1 /home/mythtv/guide.xml 2> /dev/null
> [mythtv at living mythtv]$ mythfilldatabase --file 1 -1 /home/mythtv/guide.xml 
> 2> /dev/null
> ### bypassing grabbers, reading directly from file
> Updating icons for sourceid: 1
> Adjusting program database end times...
> 0 replacements made.
> Marking repeats...found 0
> Unmarking repeats from grabber that fall within our new episode window...found 
> 0
> 2005-03-06 21:56:17.213 Connecting to backend server: 127.0.0.1:6543 (try 1 of 
> 5)
> 2005-03-06 21:56:17.220 Using protocol version 14
> 
> and the backend is reporting
> [mythtv at living mythtv]$ Starting up as the master server.
> 2005-03-06 21:56:02.551 mythbackend version: 0.17.20050130-1 www.mythtv.org
> 2005-03-06 21:56:02.561 Enabled verbose msgs : important general
> 2005-03-06 21:56:04.551 Reschedule requested for id -1.
> 2005-03-06 21:56:04.619 Scheduled 0 items in 0.1 = 0.06 match + 0.01 place
> 2005-03-06 21:56:04.622 Seem to be woken up by USER
> 2005-03-06 21:56:09.521 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
> 2005-03-06 21:56:09.522 adding: living as a client (events: 0)
> 2005-03-06 21:56:09.530 Reschedule requested for id -1.
> 2005-03-06 21:56:09.537 Scheduled 0 items in 0.0 = 0.00 match + 0.00 place
> 2005-03-06 21:56:09.541 unknown socket
> 2005-03-06 21:56:17.225 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
> 2005-03-06 21:56:17.226 adding: living as a client (events: 0)
> 2005-03-06 21:56:17.255 Reschedule requested for id -1.
> 2005-03-06 21:56:17.261 unknown socket
> 2005-03-06 21:56:17.269 Scheduled 0 items in 0.0 = 0.01 match + 0.00 place
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Simon
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