by Larry | Jun 15, 2015 | Blog
Had an issue where we had stuck items in the Job Queue. Found that these can easily be removed via the MythTV Frontend, but to do them in mass, MySQL is the way to go. Log into mysql into the mythconverg DB and: TRUNCATE Table jobqueue; To remove older recordings that...
by Larry | Oct 15, 2014 | Blog
For the past month I have been having issues with my Mythbuntu DVRs. In all systems I was experiencing an odd issue where sometimes the tuners (HVR 2250) would not lock to channels (on both Mythbuntu 12.04 and 14.04). I would confirm the signal strength with a tester,...
by Larry | Oct 15, 2014 | Blog
After my upgrade from 12.04 to 14.04 I found that my rename user job via Mythlink.pl was completing successfully but not actually creating the symlink. After some digging I found this is due to using %STARTTIME% in the userjob. Post 0.26+ %STARTTIMEUTC% is required....
by Larry | Sep 9, 2014 | Blog
I ran into an issue on a specific Mythbuntu 14.04 machine where the RAID was halting the system on boot-up giving the following error: incrementally starting raid arrays mdadm: Create user root not found mdadm: create group disk not found incrementally started raid...
by Larry | Sep 9, 2014 | Blog
Full writable samba share for 14.04. Edit /etc/samba/smb.conf : [sourcecode language=”plain”] [global] workgroup = WORKGROUP server string = Samba Server %v netbios name = SERVERNAME security = user map to guest = bad user dns proxy = no...
