[mythtv-users] All "Recording Unavailable" after successful mythconverge_restore following mysql-server purge and reinstallation

[Michael T. Dean]

On 01/31/2013 04:35 AM, John Brown wrote:
>
> I think the subject line just about tells it all!
>
> For reasons outline in my other post I had to do a purge of 
> mysql-server-5.1 and mysql-common (which also purged mythtv) to 
> correct another problem. This got rid of the other problem but created 
> a new one.
>
> I successfully restored the mythconverg database from the last backup. 
> All good. Also all of the recording files are undisturbed as are all 
> of the configuration settings including the recording directory 
> setting in the backend setup.
>
> When I launch the frontend all looks good except all 180 recordings 
> (correctly listed in the "Watch Recordings") menu have the status of 
> "Recording Unavailable".
>
> Why are the recordings unavailable when the files are clearly there 
> and in the right place, and the data is clearly in mythconverg??
>
> Is there a way of correcting this problem, or am I in the situation of 
> having the 180 recordings with meaningless names so that I can't tell 
> which one is which, and have to watch in some other media player??
>
> All help will be greatly appreciated.
>

Sounds like you changed the host name of your system and didn't tell MythTV.

If so, the easiest way to fix it is to change it back, then re-restore 
the database backup (to clean out the garbage that's now in there with 
the new host name).  If you can't change the host name back, you can use 
a LocalHostName override in config.xml to get MythTV to use the previous 
host name for the profile name.

If that's not the case, you're going to need to show some logs--showing 
complete startup of mythbackend and mythfrontend through entering Watch 
Recordings and attempting to play a recording.

Mike