[mythtv-users] New install and my problmes.

Damian Surr damian at gingermagic.com
Thu Feb 1 09:42:33 UTC 2007


Thanks to the makers of MythTV and this community, I took my first steps 
into Myth last night (parts finally got delivered). It wasn't all plain 
sailing :-) I had 3 or 4 Ubuntu/MythTV guides printed out that looked 
excellent, but all left me struggling at some point or other. I'll list 
the problems I'm currently having and hope for some help or pointers.

PC:
  1.2Gig Athlon
  512Mb ram
  nVidia 5200
  1x Nova-T card
Location:
  UK
User:
  Geek, but new to Linux


1) Something went funky and wrong with the mysql database, and my 
attempt to fix it (by trying everything I could find on the net) kind of 
half worked. I not have a system where if I log in as mythtv or as userb 
(my partner), then mythtv will work. If I log in as myself, it can't 
access the database. If I run mythtv-setup from these different users, 
the ones that work seem to have a password 'lkajjmuw' in the settings. 
Where did that come from??? If I go into my user, the password is 
'mythtv' (as I believe it should be), but that one doesn't work. Any 
changing it to 'lkajjmuw' didn't work either, although I could have done 
a typo if it sounds like it should have worked. I was tying a lot of 
things and it was late.

The 'funky' but was when mythtv-setup wasn't connecting to a database 
after following all of the instructions to that point. I search for the 
error I was getting and tried two different responses which in thing 
were about resetting the mysql password. I'm not sure what it was, but 
it got me somewhere. I do know that I never entered 'lkajjmuw' anywhere!

2) I can't get the program guide info to load at all. If I go to System 
status, Listings Status, I can see:
"Failed xmltv returned error codes" and a bit more that goes off the 
screen. Then beneath
"Have you run mythfilldatabase
WARNING: is mythfilldatabase running?"

I have tried exiting and running mythfilldatabase, but I guess it's not 
that easy.
I assume it would be helpful to look at a log or something here. Where 
can I find what would be helpful?

3) I turned the machine on again this morning just to see it again 
before I started work, but when I went to watch live TV (in the two 
users that let me get that far), I see this message:
"MythTV is already using all available inputs for the channel you 
selected. If you want to watch an in-progress recording, select one from 
the playback menu. If you want to watch live TV, cancel one of the 
in-progress recordings from the delete menu."

I don't think I started anything recording last night, and the machine's 
been turned off since then anyway. I can't see anything recording either.



I'm sure there'll be more questions along the way, but these are my 
serious sticking points at the moment. I went as far as I could trying 
to dig myself out last night. I had my laptop sat next to me trawling 
through google and the ubuntu community forums. Had a few successes I 
was very pleased with, but here's where I'm at now.

Hoping for a hand
Cheers
Damian


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