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#13602: Fails to record HD channels and watch them
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Reporter: Jarno Suni | Owner: (none)
Type: Bug Report - General | Status: new
Priority: blocker | Milestone: needs_triage
Component: MythTV - Recording | Version: v31-fixes
Severity: high | Resolution:
Keywords: | Ticket locked: 0
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Comment (by Jarno Suni):

If you need any logs, please tell me soon. I may downgrade soon to be able
to use MythTV.

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#13602: Fails to record HD channels and watch them
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Reporter: Jarno Suni | Owner: (none)
Type: Bug Report - General | Status: new
Priority: blocker | Milestone: needs_triage
Component: MythTV - Recording | Version: v31-fixes
Severity: high | Resolution:
Keywords: | Ticket locked: 0
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Comment (by Klaas de Waal):

If you have not done that yet you could try to do a new channelscan.
This can be done in three variations, from routine to new installation:
- do a full scan and update the old channels
- delete all channels and do a full scan
- create a new videosource and do a full scan
Please try the variations in the order given and after each scan, see if
that makes a difference.

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#13602: Fails to record HD channels and watch them
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Reporter: Jarno Suni | Owner: (none)
Type: Bug Report - General | Status: new
Priority: blocker | Milestone: needs_triage
Component: MythTV - Recording | Version: v31-fixes
Severity: high | Resolution:
Keywords: | Ticket locked: 0
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Comment (by Jarno Suni):

Ok, I tried the first one. How do you change the language for the setup
BTW?
Tuning method (the second last item in channel search dialog) tells
opening card failed. Anyway, I ran search (the last item), and I get an
error dialog: Mistake of coder, see console. Nothing on console. Should I
try the other ones now?

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#13602: Fails to record HD channels and watch them
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Reporter: Jarno Suni | Owner: (none)
Type: Bug Report - General | Status: new
Priority: blocker | Milestone: needs_triage
Component: MythTV - Recording | Version: v31-fixes
Severity: high | Resolution:
Keywords: | Ticket locked: 0
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Comment (by Klaas de Waal):

Language setup is done with mythfrontend when mythbackend is running. Same
is true for theme selection.

All channelscans should do something, a failure on opening the card
usually suggests that the backend is still running.
The "Mistake of coder" type of messages should never happen and are thus
most interesting.

Please do a scan like this: "mythtv-setup -v chanscan 2>&1 | tee
ms-20200403-1256.log" and attach the log file to the ticket.

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#13602: Fails to record HD channels and watch them
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Reporter: Jarno Suni | Owner: (none)
Type: Bug Report - General | Status: new
Priority: blocker | Milestone: needs_triage
Component: MythTV - Recording | Version: v31-fixes
Severity: high | Resolution:
Keywords: | Ticket locked: 0
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Comment (by Jarno Suni):

Backend was not running. There is nothing in the log/console.

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#13602: Fails to record HD channels and watch them
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Reporter: Jarno Suni | Owner: (none)
Type: Bug Report - General | Status: new
Priority: blocker | Milestone: needs_triage
Component: MythTV - Recording | Version: v31-fixes
Severity: high | Resolution:
Keywords: | Ticket locked: 0
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Comment (by Klaas de Waal):

Please run mythtv-setup in a console / terminal window. There is always
some output and much more so with the -v chanscan option. If you can start
mythtv-setup and there is no output at all then there must be something
wrong with the system. Try e.g. "ls -la" in that terminal window and see
if that shows some output.

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#13602: Fails to record HD channels and watch them
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Reporter: Jarno Suni | Owner: (none)
Type: Bug Report - General | Status: new
Priority: blocker | Milestone: needs_triage
Component: MythTV - Recording | Version: v31-fixes
Severity: high | Resolution:
Keywords: | Ticket locked: 0
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Comment (by Bill Meek):

@Jarno, some distributions use a wrapper script that ends up calling
''mythtv-setup.real''.
I'd run that with the options Klaas recommends. Use: ''locate mythtv-
setup'' to find it if it isn't in your PATH.

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#13602: Fails to record HD channels and watch them
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Reporter: Jarno Suni | Owner: (none)
Type: Bug Report - General | Status: new
Priority: blocker | Milestone: needs_triage
Component: MythTV - Recording | Version: v31-fixes
Severity: high | Resolution:
Keywords: | Ticket locked: 0
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Comment (by Jarno Suni):

The cause of this issue was that the HD channels were actually gone and
part of them are now available via another provider and multiplex. This
happened about the same time as my upgrade to MythTV 31, so I thought it
was because of that.

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#13602: Fails to record HD channels and watch them
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Reporter: Jarno Suni | Owner: (none)
Type: Bug Report - General | Status: new
Priority: blocker | Milestone: needs_triage
Component: MythTV - Recording | Version: v31-fixes
Severity: high | Resolution:
Keywords: | Ticket locked: 0
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Comment (by Jarno Suni):

As for what was causing failing of the scan, there was some permission
problem concerning the adapters. If I log in to the xubuntu-desktop
session of the separate backend server locally, the permission problem
does not appear, even if I use mythtv-setup remotely via ssh -X like I did
before.

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#13602: Fails to record HD channels and watch them
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Reporter: Jarno Suni | Owner: (none)
Type: Bug Report - General | Status: new
Priority: blocker | Milestone: needs_triage
Component: MythTV - Recording | Version: v31-fixes
Severity: high | Resolution:
Keywords: | Ticket locked: 0
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Changes (by Jarno Suni):

* Attachment "ms-20200403-1256.log" added.

taskset -c 0 /usr/bin/mythtv-setup.real --syslog local7 -v chanscan 2>&1 |
tee ms-20200403-1256.log

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#13602: Fails to record HD channels and watch them
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Reporter: Jarno Suni | Owner: (none)
Type: Bug Report - General | Status: new
Priority: blocker | Milestone: needs_triage
Component: MythTV - Recording | Version: v31-fixes
Severity: high | Resolution:
Keywords: | Ticket locked: 0
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Comment (by Klaas de Waal):

The log shows a "permission denied" problem. When you can get mythtv-setup
to run as the same user as what is used for the backend (usually "mythtv")
then you should not have that. After doing a Full Scan it could be that
everything is working again.

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#13602: Fails to record HD channels and watch them
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Reporter: Jarno Suni | Owner: (none)
Type: Bug Report - General | Status: new
Priority: blocker | Milestone: needs_triage
Component: MythTV - Recording | Version: v31-fixes
Severity: high | Resolution:
Keywords: | Ticket locked: 0
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Comment (by Klaas de Waal):

Is this problem solved now? Then we can close the ticket.

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#13602: Fails to record HD channels and watch them
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Reporter: Jarno Suni | Owner: (none)
Type: Bug Report - General | Status: new
Priority: blocker | Milestone: needs_triage
Component: MythTV - Recording | Version: v31-fixes
Severity: high | Resolution:
Keywords: | Ticket locked: 0
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Comment (by Jarno Suni):

As for the original problem, yes. But as for the permission problem, no; I
want to be able to run mythtv-setup remotely. If I run mythtv-setup
locally then even if $USER is different than mythtv, there is no such
permission problem.

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#13602: Fails to record HD channels and watch them
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Reporter: Jarno Suni | Owner: (none)
Type: Bug Report - General | Status: closed
Priority: blocker | Milestone: needs_triage
Component: MythTV - Recording | Version: v31-fixes
Severity: high | Resolution: Fixed
Keywords: | Ticket locked: 0
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Changes (by Klaas de Waal):

* status: new => closed
* resolution: => Fixed


Comment:

Closing this ticket now as the problem is solved. For the permission
issue, if that is still a problem, then possibly the mailing list or the
forum is a good place to discuss it.

If the permission issue is a bug in mythtv-setup then please create a new
ticket.

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#13602: Fails to record HD channels and watch them
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Reporter: Jarno Suni | Owner: (none)
Type: Bug Report - General | Status: closed
Priority: blocker | Milestone: unknown
Component: MythTV - Recording | Version: v31-fixes
Severity: high | Resolution: Fixed
Keywords: | Ticket locked: 0
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Changes (by Stuart Auchterlonie):

* milestone: needs_triage => unknown


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