[mythtv-users] bizarre database corruption

[Greg]

On 10/01/2010 10:50 PM, Greg Woods wrote:
> At least, I am assuming I am seeing database corruption. I have the same
> problem on a mostly-working Fedora 10 system, and a brand new fresh
> install on Fedora 13 (same machine and therefore same hardware, dual
> booting while I get the new one working).
>
> The basic problem is that I cannot get my HDHomerun tuners working. The
> two HD-PVR tuners work fine. The problems I am getting look like it has
> to be bad data in the database somehow.
>
> First, if I go into mythtv-setup and add the HDHomerun tuners, it looks
> OK at first, but if I then examine the capture card table, each tuner is
> in there twice with two different cardid's. They only show up once in
> mythtv-setup. And, they don't work. I scan for channels on the antenna
> tuner and it doesn't find any. I also can't tune any channels on the QAM
> tuner. (The HDHomerun tuners work fine with the Silicon Dust software on
> Windows, and even if the HDHomerun had broken somehow, it wouldn't
> explain the double entries in the capturecard table).
>
> To fix this, I first tried to do a partial restore with
> mythconverg_restore.pl . That appears to work, but then as soon as I
> fire up mythtv-setup after that, it wants to upgrade from (blank) to
> 1264, and of course it doesn't work. If I do a full restore, the same
> old problems return (presumably because I have restored the same old bad
> data). This all happens identically on the production Fedora 10 OS, and
> also on the brand new F13 OS.
>
> Is there anything I can do to fix this that won't cause me to lose all
> my recordings? I'll be happy to provide any other info that is needed.
>
> Thank you,
>
> --Greg
>
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       It's just a stab in the dark,but I had a similar problem..Some 
how a virtual tuner was getting assigned ..I deleted all tuners and when 
I added them again, I made sure under recording options I set Max 
recordings to 1...I have never ran my HDHR tuners under multirec,so I 
have no idea why max recordings was set to 2..
See if that isn't your problem...