[mythtv-users] Just upgraded to 0.25 with mixed results.

Robert McNamara robert.mcnamara at gmail.com
Mon Jul 11 05:54:23 UTC 2011


On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 10:40 PM, Douglas Peale
<Douglas_Peale at comcast.net> wrote:

> More weird stuff:
> Can't do "Watch TV" until after I have run mythbackendsetup. The backend is
> running on boot, but selecting "Watch TV" just causes the screen to flash.
>
> This appears in the backend log:
>
> 2011-07-10 22:30:02.942967 N [1494/1965] Expire autoexpire.cpp:263
> (CalcParams) - AutoExpire: CalcParams(): Max required Free Space: 1.0 GB
> w/freq: 15 min
> 2011-07-10 22:30:25.981046 I [1494/1973] ProcessRequest mainserver.cpp:1298
> (HandleAnnounce) - MainServer::ANN Playback
> 2011-07-10 22:30:25.981061 I [1494/1973] ProcessRequest mainserver.cpp:1300
> (HandleAnnounce) - adding: Compromise as a client (events: 0)
> 2011-07-10 22:30:25.981686 I [1494/1974] ProcessRequest mainserver.cpp:1298
> (HandleAnnounce) - MainServer::ANN Monitor
> 2011-07-10 22:30:25.981699 I [1494/1974] ProcessRequest mainserver.cpp:1300
> (HandleAnnounce) - adding: Compromise as a client (events: 1)
> 2011-07-10 22:30:39.179672 I [1494/1975] ProcessRequest mainserver.cpp:1298
> (HandleAnnounce) - MainServer::ANN Playback
> 2011-07-10 22:30:39.179680 I [1494/1975] ProcessRequest mainserver.cpp:1300
> (HandleAnnounce) - adding: Compromise as a client (events: 0)
> 2011-07-10 22:30:39.196810 I [1494/1723] TVRecEvent tv_rec.cpp:989
> (HandleStateChange) - TVRec(1): Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
> 2011-07-10 22:30:39.200530 I [1494/1723] TVRecEvent tv_rec.cpp:3443
> (TuningCheckForHWChange) - TVRec(1): HW Tuner: 1->1
> 2011-07-10 22:30:39.204281 E [1494/1723] TVRecEvent dtvmultiplex.cpp:289
> (ParseTuningParams) - DTVMux: ParseTuningParams -- Unknown tuner type
> 2011-07-10 22:30:39.204330 E [1494/1723] TVRecEvent dtvchannel.cpp:303
> (SetChannelByString) - DTVChan(1016A87D-0): SetChannelByString(5.1): Failed
> to initialize multiplex options
> 2011-07-10 22:30:39.204341 E [1494/1723] TVRecEvent tv_rec.cpp:3647
> (TuningFrequency) - TVRec(1): Failed to set channel to 5.1. Reverting to
> kState_None
> 2011-07-10 22:30:39.204372 I [1494/1723] TVRecEvent tv_rec.cpp:989
> (HandleStateChange) - TVRec(1): Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None

A 39 second excerpt of the backend log is not sufficient to determine
what is wrong.  Based on the "unknown tuner type," it could be a
misconfiguration on your part, a database corruption, etc.  It's also
quite likely, given your reason for updating to master, your usage of
a channel editor that does no error checking (both those in mythweb
and in the new web setup), and possible manual database manipulation,
that your channel and multiplex tables are no longer correct, where
correct means "exactly the format myth writes them in, and thus
expects to find them in."  Those manipulations are quite possibly the
cause of your issues.  I also have no idea what you mean by
"mythbackendsetup" as we have no such thing... I will guess that you
mean mythtv-setup, but that's just a guess.

But more importantly, as Mark previously noted, you are not running a
stable release, nor a supported one.  Posting a litany of issues is
unlikely to generate a rush to respond as we really don't *want*
people to be using master while we're adding new features, thus
creating new bugs, thus chasing new bugs, and thus ultimately fixing
new bugs.  When people use master, we generally hope/expect that they
will be able to competently fix the bugs they find.  When we're ready
for people to test things thoroughly, we always make a public call on
the lists and on our web site.

Users of master should open thorough, informed tickets (after having
read the ticket howto), and prepare to be prompted for extensive
information, patch testing, backtraces, etc. if they want those issues
resolved.  They should also be religiously following the commits list.

Robert


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