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Hello,
I recently had some problems with Australian logos, fixed thanks to Firebird and Mike.
But it seems my installation has more serious problems.

Background: 7170 model, free-to-air only. about 5 months old.
It has just returned from having its 3rd HDD installed, so I have a freshly reset system.

I have used TaptoDate to install a few TAPs, including SmartEPG.

HDD_Info
RebuildNAV
SmartEPG + fontpack + Aus logos
TMSRemote
TMSTelnetd

After a day or two, smartEPG would lock up the system. (v5.4c)
I used TAPtoDate to do a "repair", which made no difference.
Then I did a "repair - standard settings" and it started working again.
Then it was updated to v5.4d
But it worked only for 2 days, when it locked up again.

Looking at the logs, I suspect an infinite loop trying to recover from a corrupt file.DB, but before I get involved in sorting out this problem, I want to make sure I have a clean install. However I am having some problems.

I thought I would do a manual install, so I know exactly what is happening.
Problem 1: Bug?
I used TAPtoDate to do do a "uninstall (complete)". This action left all the settings/SmartEPG folder intact, but it did delete all the fonts within the settings/fonts folder. TAPtoDate still listed SmartEPG fonts as being installed.
I manually deleted the settings/SmartEPG folder to remove all trace.
Problem 2:
I tried running the manual installer SmartEPG_Install.tap from the Topfield-Europe TAP page, but it complained about all the missing fonts.
I went to the same page for the SmartEPG Fontpack, but it only links to a small file: 8E0A4267.ttd, which looks to me like a TAPtoDate config file. I cannot understand how to do a manual install from that.

So, what would the experts recommend to get a clean install of SmartEPG?

Cheers,
Cameron.

Hi Cameron,

Cameron hat geschrieben:Problem 1: Bug?
I used TAPtoDate to do a "uninstall (complete)". This action left all the settings/SmartEPG folder intact, but it did delete all the fonts within the settings/fonts folder.

Fixed now, the fonts should not be deleted any more if TAPtoDate uninstalls SmartEPG.

TAPtoDate still listed SmartEPG fonts as being installed.

This information is kept in the Settings\TAPtoDate folder.

I went to the same page for the SmartEPG Fontpack, but it only links to a small file: 8E0A4267.ttd, which looks to me like a TAPtoDate config file.

Fixed too. While there is no installer for the fonts, the link will now point to a zip file, which contains all ufnt files. But as your’re using TAPtoDate, this is still the recommending method. Do a repair of the font pack and the fonts should reappear.

Cheers,
Alex

Thanks Alex,

Yes, I did the TAPtoDate repair to get the fonts back, but forgot about WinSCP's habit of caching directory listings for a session, so it still showed the fonts folder as empty. I found a backup copy of the fonts on my pc.

But I still think there may be something wrong with my reinstallation.
This time it was installed using the directly downloaded install TAP, and the other times via TAPtoDate.

The fileDB.log file shows numerous entries like this:

2013-12-19 17:56:35 FileDB: the DB check has found an inconsistency and has deleted the files
2013-12-19 17:56:36 failed to load 'File.db'
2013-12-19 17:56:36 failed to load the current database. Trying to restore the backup.
2013-12-19 17:56:36 the backup doesn't exist or is damaged

Then, after starting a recording I get

failed to open the string DB
Failed to stat() '/'

every 5 seconds for maybe the duration of the recording.

If I telnet in as root, then
# ls -ld /
shows global rx permissions.
# stat /
works as expected.

The .db files present are: Event, EventExtDescr, File, Services and Timer

Cameron hat geschrieben:The fileDB.log file shows numerous entries like this:

It may show this only for the very first start of SE after a fresh installation.

Failed to stat() '/'