MythTV goes titsup
May. 16th, 2008 06:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johnridleyLast night the MythTV box just went bonk. The database is gone, it boots but won't start the frontend, it will run setup but the key configs are so screwed up that I can't navigate the menus. I have no idea what happened, but I have been suspicious of it for a while; for the last few months it's been doing questionable things; mainly it's been recording stuff that I know damn well it's already recorded, saying it hadn't. The kids say it's been deleting stuff, but the ones I've investigated have been proper (the shows were configured to auto-delete when space got low).
I think it's time for a rebuild.
I've got a spare 250G in my personal machine that's currently just got a big ole' TC volume on it. I'm burning the stuff off that onto DVD to clear it (got another 20 DVDs or so to go) and then I can get started on a fresh Myth build. The drive that's in there is still OK so I haven't lost any video files, I'll mount them in the media area and we'll plow through those in the next few days.
I think it's time for a rebuild.
I've got a spare 250G in my personal machine that's currently just got a big ole' TC volume on it. I'm burning the stuff off that onto DVD to clear it (got another 20 DVDs or so to go) and then I can get started on a fresh Myth build. The drive that's in there is still OK so I haven't lost any video files, I'll mount them in the media area and we'll plow through those in the next few days.
