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Does anyone know how long this takes?  I am on day #2 (over 48 hours) and still downloading files in background.  Has anyone else done this and if so, how long does it take?  Can I stop the upgrade and upgrade from cd?

Well, I regenerated the md image with no effect.  Does anyone have any other ideas, short of reinstalling the whole system?  Can I safely delete an md?

Good idea...thanks.  I will try that this evening.

I have had a Shuttle AMD-64 MD up and running for over a month.  This weekend while moving the device it was unplugged accidentally.  Upon power-up, I got the following:

Request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-ffff

5 times in a row and then the system froze.  Rebooting the core did not help.  Has anyone seen this before or does anyone have any suggestions?

Just rebooted my network boot media director and just after starting the reboot I get the following:

Request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-ffff

about 6 times and then it hangs.

Nothing has changed on the MD or the core, both of which have been running for over a month.  Has anyone else seen this?

When setting the type of capture card in mythfrontend, it defaults to V4L analog type card.  The PVR-USB2 is an MPEG2.  Changing this fixes the black screen problem.

Help! Please!  On an AMD 64 3200 with GeForce 5600 as a diskless MD with UI1 and a PVR-USB2 capture device, I am getting a black screen and no audio when I try to watch TV or even display the guide.  I had to go into mythfrontend and tell myth which codecs to use for playback..it was detecting an unknown video and audio codec before I did this.  Below is a snippit from /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log.  I'm not sure what the error about Card 1 not a having a hostname is.  Can anyone see what the problem is?  I have scoured the linuxmce and mythtv forum without finding an actual solution.

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2007-11-18 15:23:53.259 Using runtime prefix = /usr
2007-11-18 15:23:53.347 New DB connection, total: 1
2007-11-18 15:23:53.375 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: dcerouter
2007-11-18 15:23:53.393 Current Schema Version: 1160
Running as a slave backend.
Card 1 does not have a hostname defined.
Please run setup and confirm all of the capture cards.
2007-11-18 15:23:53.453 New DB connection, total: 2
2007-11-18 15:23:53.475 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: dcerouter
2007-11-18 15:23:53.491 EITHelper: localtime offset -6:00:00
2007-11-18 15:23:53.513 New DB connection, total: 3
2007-11-18 15:23:53.534 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: dcerouter
2007-11-18 15:23:54.243 Main::Starting HttpServer
2007-11-18 15:23:54.276 Main::Registering HttpStatus Extension
2007-11-18 15:23:54.295 mythbackend version: 0.20.20060828-4 www.mythtv.org
2007-11-18 15:23:54.313 Enabled verbose msgs:  important general
2007-11-18 15:23:54.329 AutoExpire: Found 1 recorders w/max rate of 72 MiB/min
2007-11-18 15:23:54.347 AutoExpire: Required Free Space: 2.1 GB w/freq: 10 min
2007-11-18 15:23:55.369 Connecting to master server: 192.168.80.1:6543
2007-11-18 15:23:55.387 Connected successfully
2007-11-18 15:24:01.412 AutoExpire: Found 1 recorders w/max rate of 72 MiB/min
2007-11-18 15:24:01.433 AutoExpire: Required Free Space: 2.1 GB w/freq: 10 min
2007-11-18 15:35:23.854 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2007-11-18 15:35:23.859 adding: moon34 as a client (events: 0)
2007-11-18 15:35:23.878 TVRec(2): Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
2007-11-18 15:35:23.895 TVRec(2): HW Tuner: 2->2
2007-11-18 15:35:24.787 NVR: Won't work with the streaming interface, falling back
VIDIOCGMBUF:: Invalid argument
strange error flushing buffer ...
2007-11-18 15:36:04.809 TVRec(2): Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None
2007-11-18 15:36:04.874 Finished recording Unknown: channel 1000
2007-11-18 15:37:57.423 Using runtime prefix = /usr
2007-11-18 15:37:57.480 New DB connection, total: 1
2007-11-18 15:37:57.487 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: dcerouter
2007-11-18 15:37:57.590 Current Schema Version: 1160
Running as a slave backend.
Card 1 does not have a hostname defined.
Please run setup and confirm all of the capture cards.
2007-11-18 15:37:58.093 New DB connection, total: 2
2007-11-18 15:37:58.124 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: dcerouter
2007-11-18 15:37:58.153 EITHelper: localtime offset -6:00:00
2007-11-18 15:37:58.188 New DB connection, total: 3
2007-11-18 15:37:58.216 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: dcerouter
2007-11-18 15:38:01.504 Using runtime prefix = /usr
2007-11-18 15:38:01.592 New DB connection, total: 1
2007-11-18 15:38:01.626 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: dcerouter
2007-11-18 15:38:01.632 Current Schema Version: 1160
Running as a slave backend.
Card 1 does not have a hostname defined.
Please run setup and confirm all of the capture cards.
2007-11-18 15:38:01.701 New DB connection, total: 2
2007-11-18 15:38:01.726 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: dcerouter
2007-11-18 15:38:01.752 EITHelper: localtime offset -6:00:00
2007-11-18 15:38:01.781 New DB connection, total: 3
2007-11-18 15:38:01.801 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: dcerouter
2007-11-18 15:38:03.097 Main::Starting HttpServer
2007-11-18 15:38:03.122 Main::Registering HttpStatus Extension
2007-11-18 15:38:03.144 mythbackend version: 0.20.20060828-4 www.mythtv.org
2007-11-18 15:38:03.163 Enabled verbose msgs:  important general
2007-11-18 15:38:03.198 AutoExpire: Found 1 recorders w/max rate of 72 MiB/min
2007-11-18 15:38:03.220 AutoExpire: Required Free Space: 2.1 GB w/freq: 10 min
2007-11-18 15:38:04.245 Connecting to master server: 192.168.80.1:6543
2007-11-18 15:38:04.263 Connected successfully
2007-11-18 15:38:10.300 AutoExpire: Found 1 recorders w/max rate of 72 MiB/min
2007-11-18 15:38:10.323 AutoExpire: Required Free Space: 2.1 GB w/freq: 10 min
2007-11-18 15:38:23.110 Expiring Unknown from Sun Nov 18 15:35:24 2007, 0 MBytes, forced expire (LiveTV recording)


Well, the underlying problem turned out to be that after the helper script ran, X tried to start but came back with an error saying that the client's nvidia driver was a newer version than the one specified in the kernel.  Don't know how that happened, but was able to run AVWizard_Run.sh by starting the MD's orbiter and then going to a console and killing X.  I was able to change from UI3 to UI2 successfully, but now I have no video at all when playing video's or mythtv...just a black screen.  Good Grief.

rafik24,

I looked in the wiki but didn't see it.  Could you point me in the right direction?

Thanks.

After selecting 'Change resolution and sound' under advanced settings on a diskless MD, the computer reboots, but after running the helper script it stays in the console screen, blanking for a second once every 7 seconds.  Has anyone else seen this?  Is there a way to force the screen wizard to run without rebooting first?

Well, uninstalling and reinstalling didn't help.  I freakin' give up.  I'm going to reload linuxmce from the dvd this time (this will make the 4th time I've installed it) and try again.  I seem to get a little closer to everything working each time.

The USB-UIRT website has a windows based program (called lrnhelper.exe I think) in their support section with which you can capture the pronto codes one by one in text format.  I captured the pertinent ones, but I haven't had a chance to try them yet.  Hope this helps.

I think I saw a post somewhere saying that this was solved, at least once, by unplugging the pvr-usb2, deleting it from the md in web-admin, and then hot plugging it.  I think I will give that a try.  Again, thanks for all the help and suggestions. 

Under mythfrontend setup there is a user field.  What is this field supposed to be set to,  linuxmce or mythtv?  It is currently set to mythtv and adding linuxmce to /etc/group under mythtv did not fix my problem.

Are the problems I am seeing possibly from installing from cd's and installing a 'core only' server?  Anyway, thanks for the help.