[03:12] <ripperda> very exasperated right now and could use some tips on debugging why my setup can no longer get channel sync on either of my tuners
[03:12] <Shadow__X> what do you mean by channel sync? and are you using a wam tunner
[03:13] <ripperda> I've had problems on and off with a second recording not always working. I'm running mythbuntu 10.04. bear with me here as I run through events from the last few days
[03:14] <ripperda> I have 2 hauppage wintv-hvr 850 usb tuners. they use the xc5000 driver. they've generally always worked for me, with an occasional mis-recording
[03:14] <ripperda> I synced up to latest mythtv a few days back (2:0.24.1+fixes.20111110.088335b-0ubuntu0mythbuntu1)
[03:15] <ripperda> I also synced up to the latest kernel (2.6.38-12-generic)
[03:15] <ripperda> I noticed failures were more common and after a day or two, realized that it was always the second recording to start (even if I forcibly switched which tuner was used).
[03:15] <ripperda> no problem, I can work towards debugging that
[03:16] <ripperda> this morning, I had a power outage and that forced a reboot of my backend and net storage
[03:16] <ripperda> things then started to have problems, I tried to muck with the configuration and then things went straight south
[03:17] <ripperda> so it turned out I had updated my main backend package (mythtv-backend) on my backend system and the frontend on my frontend system, but had not updated all packages in both places
[03:18] <ripperda> I realized this, so updated all packages on my backend
[03:18] <ripperda> so it's all synced to the same mythtv packages
[03:18] <ripperda> as I'm playing with this, I realize that the backend is not able to record tonight's programs, although I can manually tune to the same program on live tv
[03:20] <ripperda> note that during this time, my net storage box was recovering via fsck, so storage groups (for videos, not recordings) was not available and caused a lot of mythtv apps to time out slowly, which was confusing me at the same time until I realized that
[03:20] <ripperda> I then made the bad mistake of playing around with mythtv-setup, deleting and re-adding my tuners, probably messing up their config
[03:21] <ripperda> at this point, scheduling recording fails, as well as live tv tuning fails
[03:21] <ripperda> when I'm trying to record, I see a long series of this output in my backend logs:
[03:21] <ripperda> SM(/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0)::AddFlags: Seen() Match() Wait(Sig,)
[03:22] <ripperda> I'd like to just start with being able to tune live tv, then work from there. (I know I included a lot of background)
[03:23] <ripperda> does that SM().. line mean anything to you? I'm suspicious my capture card settings are wrong, but not sure what all the proper settings are
[03:32] <ripperda> I use SchedulesDirect for my schedules, so that would mean I should set EIT to disabled on the cards themselves, right?
[05:27] <Shadow__X> ripperda: i would actually try to get a recording to work first, but i would also use local storage for recordings
[14:46] <alanb99> hello mythbuntu. A weird thing happened to my mythbuntu the other day (recently installed 11.10 version). All of a sudden the system fonts have become the same as the ones used in the myth apps. That font size is fine for myth but ridiculously enormous for "normal" use.... opening up a terminal window doesn't even fit on my screen any more. Any inspiration? xfce is all very new to me