Mailing List Archive: Green screen AGAIN

Green screen AGAIN

Jul 22, 2003, 8:21 AM

Post #1 of 4 (1310 views)

I had the green screen happen to me when I set the recording resolution to
something that mythTV didn't like. (540 even). I found that if I set it to
544 the green screen was replaced with the signal. I still got audio, just
no video.

I'm not sure if this is your problem, but it's something to check.

Rich

Mark <fairlane@voyager.net> wrote:

>I'm getting the green screen on recording and live tv again. This is after
>a power failure, and I verified that there were NOT multiple copies of
>either frontend or backend running. I tried killing all myth processes,
>and running backend, then frontend from separate console windows, and still
>had the green screen. Corrupted database due to the outage? Any way to
>auto reset the database upon booting, I get power failures fairly
>frequently, so I need to fix this permanently.

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Re: Green screen AGAIN [ In reply to ]

fairlane at voyager

Jul 23, 2003, 2:58 PM

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I haven't changed the resolution from 480x480, which is where it's been
working fine for a couple of weeks.

I have a vague notion that it's permissions somewhere, but haven't found
it yet.

Richard Schelin wrote:

>
> I had the green screen happen to me when I set the recording
> resolution to something that mythTV didn't like. (540 even). I found
> that if I set it to 544 the green screen was replaced with the
> signal. I still got audio, just no video.
>
> I'm not sure if this is your problem, but it's something to check.
>
> Rich
>
>
>
>
> Mark <fairlane@voyager.net> wrote:
>
>> I'm getting the green screen on recording and live tv again. This is
>> after a power failure, and I verified that there were NOT multiple
>> copies of either frontend or backend running. I tried killing all
>> myth processes, and running backend, then frontend from separate
>> console windows, and still had the green screen. Corrupted database
>> due to the outage? Any way to auto reset the database upon booting,
>> I get power failures fairly frequently, so I need to fix this
>> permanently.
>
>
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Re: Green screen AGAIN [ In reply to ]

fairlane at voyager

Jul 23, 2003, 7:07 PM

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Last night I wiped the database and channel listings, and reran
mythfilldatabase. It's back working again.
I sure wish I knew what was corrupting the database. Does anyone else
have this problem with power
outages?

Mark wrote:

> I haven't changed the resolution from 480x480, which is where it's
> been working fine for a couple of weeks.
>
> I have a vague notion that it's permissions somewhere, but haven't
> found it yet.
>
> Richard Schelin wrote:
>
>>
>> I had the green screen happen to me when I set the recording
>> resolution to something that mythTV didn't like. (540 even). I found
>> that if I set it to 544 the green screen was replaced with the
>> signal. I still got audio, just no video.
>>
>> I'm not sure if this is your problem, but it's something to check.
>>
>> Rich
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Mark <fairlane@voyager.net> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm getting the green screen on recording and live tv again. This
>>> is after a power failure, and I verified that there were NOT
>>> multiple copies of either frontend or backend running. I tried
>>> killing all myth processes, and running backend, then frontend from
>>> separate console windows, and still had the green screen. Corrupted
>>> database due to the outage? Any way to auto reset the database upon
>>> booting, I get power failures fairly frequently, so I need to fix
>>> this permanently.
>>
>>
>>
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Re: Green screen AGAIN [ In reply to ]

spin at avalon

Aug 7, 2003, 12:58 PM

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You might try a UPS, I am pretty sure you can get your MythTV machine to
shut down cleanly in the event of a power outage with one. I've been
meaning to get one for a while. During bad storms I seem to lose power
(for a short amount of time) almost every time. One time my MythTV
machine didn't boot back up when I hit reset and I almost had a hard
attack... Thankfully it did come back with a hard reset.

On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 21:07, Mark wrote:
> Last night I wiped the database and channel listings, and reran
> mythfilldatabase. It's back working again.
> I sure wish I knew what was corrupting the database. Does anyone else
> have this problem with power
> outages?
>
> Mark wrote:
>
> > I haven't changed the resolution from 480x480, which is where it's
> > been working fine for a couple of weeks.
> >
> > I have a vague notion that it's permissions somewhere, but haven't
> > found it yet.
> >
> > Richard Schelin wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> I had the green screen happen to me when I set the recording
> >> resolution to something that mythTV didn't like. (540 even). I found
> >> that if I set it to 544 the green screen was replaced with the
> >> signal. I still got audio, just no video.
> >>
> >> I'm not sure if this is your problem, but it's something to check.
> >>
> >> Rich
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Mark <fairlane@voyager.net> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I'm getting the green screen on recording and live tv again. This
> >>> is after a power failure, and I verified that there were NOT
> >>> multiple copies of either frontend or backend running. I tried
> >>> killing all myth processes, and running backend, then frontend from
> >>> separate console windows, and still had the green screen. Corrupted
> >>> database due to the outage? Any way to auto reset the database upon
> >>> booting, I get power failures fairly frequently, so I need to fix
> >>> this permanently.
> >>
> >>
> >>
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