[mythtv-users] Programs no longer recording -- sql rights? Hostname change?

G Venkataraman gvenkat at gmail.com
Mon Nov 5 18:54:55 UTC 2007


On 11/4/07, Robert <RobertCL at iname.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2007-11-04 at 17:30 -0500, Matthew Dansereau wrote:
> > ANY Ideas?
> >
> > On 11/4/07, Matthew Dansereau <matthew at dansereau.com> wrote:
> >         Hi all,
> >
> >         I have had some exciting sucess networking some mythtv systems
> >         with one "minor" drawback.
> >
> >         I can no longer schedule shows.  I go through the process of
> >         selecting show in the guide, (one time only, etc) and
> >         "save..." and the show doesn't go into the queue.  I can still
> >         watch live TV & manually record.
> >
> >         I can still access my previous recordings and via both systems
> >         but neither will record.
> >
> >         I simply enabled nfs file sharing, added * network permisions
> >         (for NFS & SQL network access), I changed each systems
> >         hostname file to be unique (ie. myth-bed instead of local).  I
> >         also added each systems name to each others hosts file.
> >
> >         After making said changes mythtv on both systems seemed to
> >         work great.  I could access my "videos" & "my recordings" on
> >         both systems.   BUT I did notice that during boot time the
> >         system would freeze about 2min loading "sendmail".... I didn't
> >         use so i simply ran the command "yum remove sendmail"....  I'm
> >         guessing that changing the hostname configureation and/or SQL
> >         permissions are at the root of the probem....
> >
> >         Would someone point me in the right direction?
> >         I'm hoping that it is something simple like modifying a config
> >         file to use my new "host name" when loading SQL.
> >
> >         Thanks,
> >         -Matt
>
> Have you tried looking the frontend / backend logs to see if any errors
> are reported ?
>
> Robert.


Since you mentioned that you had changed the hostname of one or more of your
systems, have you looked at the "Installing and using MythTV" documentation
? It has a section (link given below) that specifically lists the steps to
perform if you have changed the hostname of a box.

http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-23.html#ss23.15

-=Venkat=-
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