TV-Server Configuration fails to startup service (1 Viewer)

[perky]

Hi All,

I'm new here, first post. I'm hoping someone here can shine a light on this for me:
Just installed MP1.6.0 Final on a clean Win7 pro machine but the TV-Service Configuration throws an exception (see below).

I've attached my log files. It appears the TVService can't be restarted, but I can manually stop and start the service with services.msc .

I'm running Win7 Pro on a completely clean install. I've disabled the firewall and have no anti-virus installed (yet!).
Processor - AMD A8-6600K
RAM - 4GB
Disk - 120GB SSD

Thanks for the help,
Mark.

 

[perky]

Still having problems with this which is frustrating.

I installed on another machine and it works OK. I noticed that on that machine a manual start of TVService takes about 3 seconds, whereas on the failing machine a manual start takes about 10 seconds (but on both stopping the service is within 2 seconds). Also the failing machine issues a restart, which does eventually start the service but the exception is thrown just before the service actually starts, so I'm thinking it might be a timeout issue waiting for the service to start.

As an aside I tried the TVService.exe posted here:
https://issues.team-mediaportal.com/browse/MP1-3172

This handles the exception gracefully, however I still get logs claiming the TVService failed to start.

Can anyone help?
Thanks,
Mark.

 

[mm1352000]

Hello Mark

Please refer to this thread:
https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/threads/tv-server-stopped-working.124194/
You appear to have the same problem - changed IP address or hostname.

mm

 

[perky]

Thanks for the reply.

I cannot get to the TV Server Configuration window as it throws an exception, but I can test the server in MediaPortal Configuration->TV/Radio and itworks because the TVService is running.

A bit of history: I bought a HTPC with MediaPortal pre-installed. I changed the PC name. I had issues with the above, so decided to uninstall everything including MySQL (full uninstall) and re-install again from scratch. So at some point my PC name changed and will have a different IP address to the original installation, but that (I hope) has been eradicated and replaced with a new one (unless there is still some hangover that the full uninstall hasn't removed?).

Thanks,
Mark.

 

[mm1352000]

Mark, full product installation only removes MediaPortal. It does not remove MySQL. So, unless you also uninstalled MySQL [including its databases - sometimes you have to delete the data directories manually], the old database would still be sitting around... and this would definitely explain the problem.

[edit: It is possible to configure TV Server to create a new database which is basically the equivalent of starting from scratch. To do that, follow the instructions here:
https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/threads/tv-server-error.122574/#post-1037241

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[perky]

Hi,
I explictly uninstalled MySQL as well, when Mediaportal was re-installed it claimed MySQL was not installed and downloaded a new one and installed it. Do I have to explitly remove a database file somewhere too?[DOUBLEPOST=1390654425][/DOUBLEPOST]Success! I followed the configure-db trick in the link you posted and now the TV Server Configuration window comes up!
Thank you very much for your help.
Mark.