[mythtv-users] Mythfilldatabase runs -- no guide data shows up

[Jonathan Seawright]

What if i change it back to localhost.localhost?

I had the guide problem before changing the hostname... oddily enough...

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>wrote:

> On 11/26/2008 03:41 PM, Jonathan Seawright wrote:
> > Lately i've been having a wierd time with my good old'e mythtv box. I
> > run mythfilldatabase, it fills the database and whatnot, but nothing
> > appears in my guides. It also appears that when I schedule a
> > recording, it never starts recording (it doesn't show up in the
> > upcoming recordings list).
> > I get the feeling it is partly due to me renaming the hostname from
> > localhost.localhost to somethingelse.somethingelse2
> >
> > It seems like after I did that, all my settings went away, as if it
> > lost access to the /home/mythtv/.mythtv/ directory... It was very
> > strange.
> > I did reflect my changes in MythTV Setup-- shouldn't that fix it?
> >
> > I did try optimize_mythdb.pl and it did nothing to fix my problem.
> > Where should I start in fixing this?
> >
> > I get the feeling my database is b0rked. :(
>
> Yep.  There are guides for how to properly change the hostname.
> http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-23.html#ss23.15 and
>
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Database_Backup_and_Restore#Change_the_hostname_of_a_MythTV_frontend_or_backend
>
> Both will fail, now, though, since you have the old /and/ the new
> hostname in the DB.
>
> My recommendation is a "spring cleaning"
> http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-23.html#ss23.7 , though, you
> should probably use:
>
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Database_Backup_and_Restore#Partial_restore_of_a_backup
>
> I.e.:
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Database_Backup_and_Restore (all
> info)
>
> specifically:
>
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Database_Backup_and_Restore#Script-based_Database_Backup_and_Restore
>
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Database_Backup_and_Restore#Quick_Start
>
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Database_Backup_and_Restore#Backup_database_and_rotate_keeping_the_10-most-recent_backups
> (
>
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Database_Backup_and_Restore#Partial_restore_of_a_backup
> or
>
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Database_Backup_and_Restore#Partial_restore_of_a_backup.2C_including_plugin_data
> )
>
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Database_Backup_and_Restore#Change_the_hostname_of_a_MythTV_frontend_or_backend
>
> Note that you'll have to reconfigure everything (mythtv-setup, then
> mythfrontend settings) afterwards, but if you don't, your system will
> remain broken (even if you get it to look like it's working).
>
> Mike
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