[mythtv-users] Replace my database with a "stock" one

Hika van den Hoven hikavdh at gmail.com
Mon Jun 2 16:28:59 UTC 2014


Hoi Rob,

Monday, June 2, 2014, 6:22:49 PM, you wrote:

> After an upgrade to 0.26, then quickly to 0.27, my backend system
> is experiencing a lot of problems that I've never seen in my many
> years of running MythTV.  Commercial flagging isn't working. 
> Mythfilldatabase no longer runs automatically (but it works when I
> run it manually).  I cannot watch a recording until it is done
> recording (although watching live TV works).  When skipping forward,
> I often get the “End of Recording” menu which asks to Delete or
> Save.  If I save, I can watch the recording in its entirety.  There
> are probably other issues, but I've been dealing with them for so
> long now that they're starting to seem normal to me.

> Rather than trying to fix these problems one-by-one, I was
> wondering if it makes sense to replace my database with a “stock”
> one, then restore the tables for things that I would like to
> preserve (recordings, previously-recorded, recording schedule, etc).
> Any opinions on whether that is a good idea or not?  My thought was
> to get all the settings back to their defaults and see if things work right.

> Background:

> My problems started about 7 months ago when I upgraded my Debian
> Squeeze system to Wheezy, and moved from mythtv 0.25 to 0.26 (from
> www.deb-multimedia.org).  There was a bug which made my backend
> crash whenever I tried to record with a PVR-150.  So I upgraded
> again to 0.27 (www.deb-multimedia.org's Wheezy backports) and got my
> basic functionality back, but have experienced a lot of nuisance problems ever since.

> This is a 32-bit system, in case that matters.

> Thanks for any advice you can give.

> -Rob
> _______________________________________________
I can tell you the problem with watching ongoing recordings was fixed
for me with 0.27.1



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