Mvchannels running, but channels dropping/realigning

[Ump25]

Well, this is kind of weird. I've got mvch135 installed and running, and in my rc.sysinit so it runs after a reboot. I mapped my own locals, and 3 other cities w/in my own spot beam, to the 02-99 range. Everything else (like LV, BF, HT, etc.) I mapped to the 900's. Richmond, the newest ones (and on the CONUS feed) I mapped to their proper 873-879. Within the last 48 hours, however, mvch suddenly went haywire. First of all, Richmond (RC) and Jacksonville (JV) completely disappeared. Hartford (HT), Knoxville (KX), Grand Rapids (GR) and Buffalo (BF) are still in their proper slots in the 900's. However, the other ones which I mapped there, like Las Vegas, New Orleans, Oklahoma City, etc., all plopped into the 02-69 range.

Normally I wouldn't complain about the resulting duplicates in the 02-69 range, but the end result is not what I desire. Plus, I can't explain how or why two cities' locals entirely--Richmond and Jacksonville--disappeared.

Rubik and I had worked on a few things (thanks, Rubik!), and we verified mvchannels IS running and is in the proper place. Heck the slowness of the guide should be enough to prove this. What we are concluding is that, for some reason, my T60 has reestablished new internal channel ID numbers and caused this new, weird realignment.

I'm about to a dumpall to check and compare to my current channels.dat file, but my question is: Has this happened to others here? Is this something that occurs often, and if so, can it be prevented or worked around automatically?

[captain_video]

I guess the obvious question here is whether or not you edited the rc.sysinit file to run mvchannels in looping mode after you rebooted. If you only run mvchannels from teraterm, the program terminates when you close the telnet session. The locals will migrate back to the 0-99 range if mvchannels is not rerun periodically.

Transfer a copy of rc.sysinit to your PC and open it up in TextPad (do NOT use Wordpad or Notepad for editing as they tend to introduce unwanted formatting characters into the document). Scroll to the end of the file and add the following line somewhere near the end:

mvchannels.tcl -loop=0 -file=/var/hack/channels.dat

Save the file in Unix fromat or use the utility DOS2UNIX top convert it to Unix format before you transfer it back to your DTivo. Open up teraterm, make a backup copy of your rc.sysinit file, and delete the original.

cd /etc/rc.d
cp rc.sysinit rc.sysinit.bak
rm rc.sysinit

Transfer the edited file to the /etc/rc.d directory and make it executable (if you don't, the Tivo will never get past the Welcome. Powering up screen).

chmod +x rc.sysinit

When you're done, reboot the Tivo:

/tvbin/reboot

The channels should return to the 800s & 900s and stay there.

[quantum_3]

hi UMP,
nice to see you over here :)
you might also want to open up the channels.dat file with "joe" and see if the 2 markets that disappeared have a "#!" in front of them. this has happened to me 2 many times. if that is the case you can try editing it out and trying it again but at this point i'm guessing that the "main.dat" file is getting outdated. what i normallly have to do is this.
rm main.dat
rm channels.dat
./mvchannels.tcl dumpall -main
ren main-new.dat main.dat

now you just removed your channels.dat and main.dat files and replaced them with new updated versions.

now edit your channels.dat file again and pray it works :)

i also have to set my -delay to 4mins instead of the 5mins mvchannels runs normally or my channels move then come back on the next "loop".
good luck!


q_3

[Ump25]

Yes, it is set to continuously loop in my rc.sysinit file.

My T60 has rebooted several times over the last couple weeks, with mvchannels running fine. Then, as I mentioned, suddenly a couple days ago some of the channels moved, with JV and RC disappearing altogether.

Addendum: I think my T60 is haunted. As of this afternoon, the Oklahoma City (OK) channels, which HAD migrated to the 02-69 range, have completely disappeared as well, joining JV and RC in the black hole. Then this evening Buffalo's channels, which were in the 900's, disappeared. I'll figure this out somehow! Argh!!!

[smokeman]

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