Freevo error

I had no trouble getting freevo up and running before I had a harddrive fail. I've reinstalled everything from scratch and freevo installed without any problems but it gives me this error when I choose a program to watch:

Event 'MENU_SELECT' crashed

with the option to continue (which does nothing) or shutdown (Esc brings me back to the listings menu)

main-1000.log is as follows:

------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Freevo start at Sun Jul 9 11:11:33 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Warning: /var/cache/freevo does not exists and can't be created Please create this directory as root and set permissions for the Freevo user to write to it. Using /tmp/freevo as cache directory, but this is a bad idea Error: VIDEO_SHOW_DATA_DIR not found ROM_DRIVES: Auto-detected and added "('/media/cdrom0', '/dev/hdc', 'CD-1')" ROM_DRIVES: Auto-detected and added "('/media/cdrom1', '/dev/hdd', 'CD-2')" Please run 'freevo cache' WARNING: /etc/freevo/lircrc not found! (111, 'Connection refused') (111, 'Connection refused') (111, 'Connection refused') Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/freevo/main.py", line 315, in eventhandler app.eventhandler(event) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/freevo/menu.py", line 381, in eventhandler if not isinstance(menu, Menu) and menu.eventhandler(event): File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/freevo/tv/tvguide.py", line 232, in eventhandler self.player('tv', self.selected.channel_id) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/freevo/tv/tvmenu.py", line 100, in start_tv plugin.getbyname(plugin.TV).Play(mode, tuner_id) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/freevo/tv/plugins/mplayer.py", line 129, in Play ivtv_dev.setinput(vg.input_num) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/freevo/tv/v4l2.py", line 213, in setinput r = fcntl.ioctl(self.device, SETINPUT_NO, struct.pack(INPUT_ST,value)) IOError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument

I've tried using backups of freevo.conf and local_conf.py from a backup of my previous installation. I've tried removing and reinstalling freevo looking for errors but I don't see any. I was also using Debian Etch before also. I can both play and stream video from the capture card in VLC and mplayer so it's not an IVTV or hardware issue. It's Freevo 1.5.3 from the Debian multimedia repo and python 2.3.
I'm out of ideas for now and internet searches haven't turned up anything.

Any help is appreciated.

Please run 'freevo cache'

Have you actually manually run 'freevo cache' to update the info known about your recorded shows as recommended in the startup output?

Tim

Have you actually manually run 'freevo cache' to update the info known about your recorded shows as recommended in the startup output?

Yes I have. I've also tried manually recording but it doesn't write a media file (but I still get the .fxd file).

This almost sounds like a path problem for the saved files. I don't want to sound like a smart-a**, but are you sure that you have the path set properly and that the path is writable by the freevo processes?

Tim

One other thought - Maybe I should read the entire startup output

Warning: /var/cache/freevo does not exists and can't be created Please create this directory as root and set permissions for the Freevo user to write to it. Using /tmp/freevo as cache directory, but this is a bad idea Error: VIDEO_SHOW_DATA_DIR not found

This is what I was talking about in my last post.

Tim

I changed the permissions on /var/log/freevo so it writes there instead of /tmp but still no luck.

I've found the problem. My device id # was changed in the IVTV section. I fixed it and now everything works as its supposed to. Oddly, when I installed freevo before I never had this error message even when I was tweaking the configuration to my liking (I got a blank screen). Ah well, thanks tim. Your responses made me examine my config files again.