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Tvheadend crashes

Added by Valentin Risch almost 10 years ago

Hey,

i've been running tvheadend successfully for a few weeks now. but yesterday it started to crash for some reason. i reinstalled the whole package but as soon as im trying to add my muxes tvheadend crashes again.(webgui looses connection : There seems to be a problem with the live update feed from Tvheadend. Trying to reconnect...) any chances to get a log file or something to see what is going on?

Update:

ok seems i messed up totally. I was running 3.9.2410~g3077ffa from the unstable repository which i now tried to remove and install tvheadend from stable repo. ubuntu tells me tvheadend version 3.4.28~geb79aee~trusty is installed. but when i enter webgui it is still 3.9.2410~g3077ffa??? can someone tell me how to remove tvheadend completely so i can reinstall from scratch? tried apt-get remove, apt-get clean...

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Replies (3)

RE: Tvheadend crashes - Added by Alex . almost 10 years ago

Hi Valentin,

I think 'apt-get remove' can remove the program, but does not remove the 'user' data.
( but I am no Debian user myself).

You can try "apt-get purge" since I think it will also remove the user data (depending on where the user data is placed in the case of Debian).

Otherwise, you can manually remove the data in the .hts directory in the user that runs tvheadend ( or you can just 'move' the data to .hts_BU ).

Alex.

RE: Tvheadend crashes - Added by Valentin Risch almost 10 years ago

I already tried apt-get purge which also deletes the .hts folder but still same result:(

Edit:

I also figured out that with apt-get install tvheadend a config file is created in /.hts which says im running "3.9.2410~g3077ffa"
btw. the /hts/.ths/tvheadend folder is in /home and not in /home/myuser :/

RE: Tvheadend crashes - Added by Alex . almost 10 years ago

Valentin Risch wrote:

I already tried apt-get purge which also deletes the .hts folder but still same result:(
Edit:
I also figured out that with apt-get install tvheadend a config file is created in /.hts which says im running "3.9.2410~g3077ffa"
btw. the /hts/.ths/tvheadend folder is in /home and not in /home/myuser :/

Yes, there can be more versions of .hts, depending on who runs tvheadend.
-If the files are in /hts/.hts/tvheadend, then most likely the user hts is created on install.
-If you run tvheadend as a user, then there also will be .hts info in the userdirectory of that user.

So, it all depends what user runs tvheadend, and if there is a special config directory defined in the init scripts ( for example /etc/tvheadend), which might also contain a config file.

Best guess is that after running 'purge' , you can manually delete or move the .hts file in the hts-user directory, and in /etc/tvheadend if it is there.
( but there might be some debian/ubuntu specifics that I don't know about).

However, on re-install, the .hts dir will be recreated, so before reinstalling make sure the original files are moved or deleted.

Alex.

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