[no Bug] TV died after RC4 upgrade, "Unknown Error" every-time when try to start channel (1 Viewer)

[Jari74]

Hi,

I tried to upgrade my MediaPortal to RC4 level. Everything went well, no errors etc but now I cant use TV at all. Always when I try to start any of my channels I will get "Unknown Error" message. My logs doesn't say basically nothing. Here is example when I try to watch Discovery Channel ( and when I can't watch it, I shutdown MediaPortal):

2010-06-22 23:32:20.463843 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: tv home init: Discovery (F)
2010-06-22 23:32:20.464819 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: tv home init: Discovery (F) done
2010-06-22 23:32:23.498805 [Debug][MPMain(1)]: g_Player: ShowFullScreenWindow
2010-06-22 23:32:23.501734 [Debug][MPMain(1)]: g_Player: ShowFullScreenWindow cannot switch to fullscreen
2010-06-22 23:32:23.503687 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: TVHome:turn tv on Discovery (F)
2010-06-22 23:32:23.508570 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: TVHome.ViewChannelAndCheck(): View channel=Discovery (F)
2010-06-22 23:32:23.535912 [Debug][MPMain(1)]: CiMenu: PrepareCiMenu
2010-06-22 23:32:23.566183 [Debug][MPMain(1)]: TvPlugin: CiMenuHandler attached to new card 2
2010-06-22 23:32:25.687141 [Debug][MPMain(1)]: WindowManager: route TvPlugin.TVHome:1->MediaPortal.Dialogs.GUIDialogNotify:2016
2010-06-22 23:32:25.689094 [Debug][MPMain(1)]: DialogWindow: MediaPortal.Dialogs.GUIDialogNotify init
2010-06-22 23:32:28.586370 [Debug][MPMain(1)]: WindowManager: unroute to MediaPortal.Dialogs.GUIDialogNotify:2016->TvPlugin.TVHome:1
2010-06-22 23:32:28.606876 [Warn.][MPMain(1)]: TVHome.OnClicked(): Total Time - 5103 ms
2010-06-22 23:32:29.572635 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: xml:C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Skin\Blue3wide\topbar.xml image id:1 width:0 height:0 gfx:empty.png
2010-06-22 23:32:29.579470 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: xml:C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Skin\Blue3wide\topbar.xml image id:1 width:0 height:0 gfx:empty.png
2010-06-22 23:32:31.219990 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: Main: Exit requested

Like you can see from my attachments, I dont have so many of those logs for some reason. Those 2 files are only one on whole Log directory.

 

[Der_Bub]

re: TV died after RC4 upgrade, "Unknown Error" every-time when try to start channel

well, I had this (strange) Problem for a while, too.

For me this helped (after trying several times) : MySQL Datenbank reparieren (German, but I think it's easy to get the "essence" of it...)

 

[Jari74]

re: TV died after RC4 upgrade, "Unknown Error" every-time when try to start channel

Danke schön =)

That helped a lot. Now I can watch TV quite ok (it works ~80%), but sometimes I still have weird issues like (Channel doesn't exist, Channel is encrypted and this Unknown error). Restart of TV-server doesn't help on those, I need to restart whole PC and it will work again for while.

I will crap some logs etc. later on.

 

[Der_Bub]

re: TV died after RC4 upgrade, "Unknown Error" every-time when try to start channel

My pleasure

For me it took a while till it runs stabel again, too. Maybe try to delete the sql Database of TV or reinstall MP with clear TV database.

Did you made the changes of the sql ini? --> 2nd post of the Thread!

BackupSettings plugin helped a lot ...

 

[jameson_uk]

re: TV died after RC4 upgrade, "Unknown Error" every-time when try to start channel

To repair database try this:

Open up a command prompt (as admin if Vista / Win7)
navigate to MySQL Bin folder (is C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.1\bin for me) and enter

mysqlcheck --user=root --pass=MediaPortal --auto-repair MPTVDB

This should show you in MySQL picks up any errors.

If you still have issues then you may want to do a re-scan just to make sure you have the most up to date channel details

Going to mark this as no-bug for the time being as the main issue seems to be solved. If you find another more specific issue can you start a new thread?

Thanks