[mythtv-users] After 7y5m running, time to start from scratch after update to .27?

[Nick Rout]

On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 10:05 AM, Matthias Thyroff <lists at thyroff.net> wrote:
> On 26.11.2013 04:40, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>
>> On 11/25/2013 03:08 PM, Matthias wrote:
>>>
>>> Am 25.11.2013 05:41, schrieb Michael T. Dean:
>>>>
>>>> On 11/23/2013 10:16 AM, Nick Morrott wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On 22 November 2013 21:16, Matthias Thyroff wrote:
>>
>> I'll agree that setting up channels is the worst part of configuring a
>> MythTV box.  However, if you start with a new database, you'll have to do
>> that, anyway.  So, rather than going full nuclear and throwing away your
>> entire database just because you think you have a problem with your channel
>> configuration, I'm simply suggesting you throw away *only* the channel
>> configuration information with "Delete all video sources" as it will
>> accomplish the exact same thing as starting with a new database and prevents
>> your having to reconfigure everything else.
>>
>> Agreed.  As a matter of fact, I would bet that the problem is not due to
>> any MythTV configuration at all (TTBOMK, we don't have any "communicate
>> incorrectly with the master backend" setting ;).
>>
>>
>
> Hello everybody,
>
> just a short message to close this thread properly.
>
> I did not start from scratch to recover a working myth system.
>
> I fixed the crashing backend by cleaning up the sources and channels.
>
> I fixed the comunication problem ("mythcontext: backend is online") by
> switching to another network card.
>
> And just to be sure, I did as Mike recommended, deleted all sources, cards
> and channels and started that part from scratch.
>
> That was what I actually wanted to prevent, and it took me a good part of a
> day to get it all back configured. Running the tv_grab_eu_epgdata script did
> not write the xmltv config file. Had to run it from a command line. Scanning
> dvb-s does not seem to work too well,either: In the first run, it did find
> only very few channels. In the second run, it found much more. In the third
> run, it had lost the LNB configuration, after fixing that, it ran and had
> all channels.

I have had LNB settings mysteriously disappear, but was never sure if
it was operator error or a myth fault.

Good to see you are up and running again.