[mythtv-users] MythTV crash...

[greg]

Andrew Villeneuve wrote:
> My family was watching NFL Sunday Night Football a few minutes ago 
> when all of the sudden, MythTV stopped playback and wouldn't start 
> again. I closed the frontend and tried to go into the backend to 
> troubleshoot, but I got this error:
>
> Failed to run /etc/init.d/mythtv.backend 'stop' as user root
> Unable to copy the user's Xauthorization file
> Close
>
> I couldn't get past this error so I restarted the system and tried to 
> go into Mythbackend again. I'm greeted by a screen asking me to choose 
> a language and a message that suggests Myth isn't set up. I'm at a 
> loss as to what could have happened.
>
> Before Myth suddenly stopped working, I was already having trouble 
> with my PVR-150 capture card not being recognized by MythTV. Whenever 
> I'd restart Ubuntu, I'd have to set up the capture card and input 
> connections again, otherwise, the screen would flash in MythTV 
> frontend and I would not be able to watch TV. The same thing happened 
> with my DVD drive - it changed to /dev/dvd2 from /dev/dvd1 and I could 
> not figure out why.
>
> Any ideas as to what's going on? Any system logs I should be looking 
> at to diagnose this?
>
> Andrew
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It appears you have had a database crash.You can repair it.
mysqlcheck -u mythtv -p<password> --repair mythconverg

You will have to stop mysql to do the repair..
Good Luck