I'm running R4V5 (haven't gotten around to upgrading).
For several days, myth has been freezing when told to delete a recording. It would delete it, but it had to be hard shutdown in order to get anywhere. Then one time, on reboot, the machine stopped at the desktop. If I try to run mythbackend from xterm I get this error:


From here http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2860#15525 I tried to run but that gave

I found this http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/m ... 023#110946 but now when I try to run mythtvsetup, I get a command not found.

I'm starting to think the hard drive has had corruption or something. How can I check for this or whatever else this might be. Thanks in advance.

on knoppmyth it's mythtv-setup

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Xsecrets

You should check your db for errors.

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cesman

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how can I do that?

there's a sticky post in howto section

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thanks

I've gone through everything in the thread on repairing the tables but nothing has come up with errors yet I still get the "database schema" error when trying to run the backend.

I think I now have an idea what caused the error though. hda4 is 98% full so what I'm guessing happened is that when it froze while deleting, it deleted the database entry but not the file itself. Does this make sense? And if it does, will manually deleting some old recordings help fix this?

No, it doesn't make sense as I've filled /myth when I was away on business for longer that I was originally scheduled.

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is there anything else I should check for or do you think its time to wipe the database/reinstall?

generally the problem is that it deletes the file, but not the db entry. I've had this happen then I go into mythweb find out what it thinks the filename is and do a touch 2335664234352234(whatever filename is supopsed to be).nuv in the /myth/tv dir and delete it again and all was happy.

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my backend is not running however so will mythweb still function? I thought mythweb required the backend.

Oh cool. I've had this happen to me before and didn't know how to delete the file. Thanks for the tip!!!

-Aubrey

if you can't make the backend run forget what I said as that is not your problem as file/db mismatch will not keep the backend from running.

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so I take it its time to reinstall?

Possibly. You might want to try a back up and if what it dumps out of the DB looks OK, an upgrade.