[mythtvnz] "Recording failed" message on HDHR in MythTV

[Stephen Worthington]

On Sat, 20 Apr 2013 08:55:23 +1200, you wrote:

>On Fri, 19 Apr 2013 18:01:18 +1200, Stephen Worthington  
><stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 19 Apr 2013 15:37:23 +1200, you wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I got the HDHR networked to the mythbox.Can view channels from all 3
>>> transports on both tuners,using the HDHR config GUI view option.
>>> I have added both tuners in Mythbackend and the tuners appear in the  
>>> tuner
>>> section of the info screen.
>>> If I schedule 3 concurrent programmes (I also have a dual DVB-T pci  
>>> card)
>>> the one that the HDHR is supposed to record fails.
>>>
>>> I guess I have missed something but can't seem to find out what.
>>>
>>> Is there a way to force a particular tuner to record a scheduled  
>>> programme
>>> so I can check see what is happening?
>>>
>>> Paul
>>
>> Yes, you can specify the tuner for any recording.  Edit the recording
>> rule, go to Schedule Options, and change the "Use any available tuner"
>> setting to whichever tuner you want.  I hope you have named your
>> tuners in MythTV Setup so that you can tell which is which.  Each
>> tuner will have multiple entries for each of the multirec virtual
>> tuners - they each have the same name as the tuner and you have to
>> count them to decide which virtual tuner to assign.
>>
>> However, it is easier to just use "Watch TV".  From there, after it
>> tunes in and starts playing, use the M (menu) key or the equivalent on
>> your remote, select Source, Change Tuner, and then the tuner you want
>> to test.
>>
>The front end crashed when I switched to one of the HDHR tuners in Live TV.
>Now ,upon rebooting,the system boots normally up until the frontend tries  
>to start,then I get
>a location select screen,saving this,the frontend tries to restart and it  
>goes back to the location screen in an endless loop.
>I really can't seem to stop this long enough to try and kill the FE  
>restarts.I can start BE setup but the FE restarts keep going.
>I'm preparing to install 12.04.
>
>Paul.  

The frontend is run as two parts: mythfrontend and mythfrontend.real.
The "mythfrontend" one is a wrapper that will restart
"mythfrontend.real" if it crashes.  So if you want to stop the
frontend from restarting all the time, just kill the "mythfrontend"
task from a bash prompt.  Then you can start looking at the logs to
see what the problem might be.

If you can not get to a terminal from your desktop to kill things,
remember that you can always use Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get to one in full
screen mode, then Ctrl-Alt-F7 to get back to the desktop.  I always
also set up ssh on my Linux boxes so I can access them from other PCs,
such as my laptop, phone or tablet.  And I do the fix that makes
Ctrl-Esc work again as it did in earlier versions of Mythbuntu, so
that I can always get to the desktop menu and start other programs
even with full screen programs like mythfrontend running.

Here is the fix for Ctrl-Esc:

  http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1745368