Today my MythBox just won't start. When it starts up in X there's a dialog saying that the session lasted for less that 10 secs and the it showes a login prompt, which gives me the same error again if I use it to login. I don't know if the backend is running but i think not. Last night I happened to turn off the power while nuvexport and mythfilldatabase were running and before that I'd messed a bit with the date function from the terminal. Today nothing works! If i login remotely i get the following errors when I try to start some programs:

root@mythtv:~ # mythfilldatabase
----------------- Start of XMLTV output -----------------
config file /root/.mythtv/Antenneforening.xmltv does not exist, run me with --co
nfigure
------------------ End of XMLTV output ------------------
Error in 1:1: unexpected end of file
Failed to fetch some program info


root@mythtv:~ # mythbackend
Starting up as the master server.
2004-05-14 14:11:44 Deleting /myth/tv/1001_20040512001500_20040512004500.nuv.tmp
2004-05-14 14:11:44 mythbackend version: 0.14.20040123-1 www.mythtv.org
2004-05-14 14:11:44 Enabled verbose msgs : important general
QServerSocket: failed to bind or listen to the socket
Failed to bind port: 6543
root@mythtv:~ # 2004-05-14 14:11:44 Transcoding from /myth/tv/1001_2004051200150
0_20040512004500.nuv to /myth/tv/1001_20040512001500_20040512004500.nuv.tmp
2004-05-14 14:11:44 Transcoding /myth/tv/1001_20040512001500_20040512004500.nuv
aborted because of cutlist update

well If I were you i would check the databases and rebuild as neccesary. if you search the forums you will find the commands, I can't remember them.

then rerun the mythfilldatabase and don't pull the plug in the middle the time.

<security_lesson>You should not run MythTV as root, you shouldn't run anything as root unless you need to.</security_lesson>

The first thing you need to do is figure out why the session doesn't last longer than 10 seconds. Got free space? Have you checked X's logs? Have you checked ~/.xsession-errors?

<security_lesson>You should not run MythTV as root, you shouldn't run anything as root unless you need to.</security_lesson>

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