slice refusing to load, fails on dbload30.tcl

[IanQ]

Hi everyone
My tivo stopped loading guide data about two weeks ago - the phone call works, the data downloads, and then it says "Failed while preparing data"

So I thought I'd try it manually.

I manually downloaded the latest slice file (VI13001_14635-14649.slice.gz) ie

wget http://65.49.60.197/tivo-static/listings/VI13001_14635-14649.slice.gz

which worked fine.

I then decompressed it ie

gzip -d VI13001_14635-14649.slice.gz

which worked fine!

I then tried to load it into the database, and got the following message


[TiVo [p0] /hack/guide]# dbload30.tcl VI13001_14635-14649.slice
dbload (0x3001d)

while executing
"dbload $db $file"
(file "/hack/bin/dbload30.tcl" line 20)
[TiVo [p0] /hack/guide]#

Anyone have any ideas what is going wrong? It almost looks like the database is corrupt or can't be opened..

[IanQ]

and I should have said that I'm running a series 1 tivo,

OzTivo 1.6.2-20081005,

TivoWebPlus Distribution Version 1.3.1 (oztivo-070111)

Kernel Information Version 2.1.24-TiVo-2.5 Compile #1 Tue Sep 7 02:27:11 EST 2004

[petestrash]

and I should have said that I'm running a series 1 tivo

Just as well you were not trying this on a HD TiVo :)

How long has the TiVo not been able to load data?

Can you take a look at the myslices (http://www.oztivo.net/tivo-bin/myslices.pl) page and paste what it shows.

Peter.

[IanQ]

Yep, that is what I've done already - that is how I found VI13001_14635-14649.slice.gz, it was the last one on the myslices page.
It stopped loading on Jan 17th.
And I assume I just have load the final slice in the list, not all the ones since then?

Given both the manual and automatic loading of slices is failing, could it be something wrong with my dbase?

Ian

[IanQ]

whoops, got what you meant - here it is -

Your OzTiVo receives these lineups: VI03001, VI13001.

VI03001_14616-14630.slice.gz 7 January Already received
VI03001_14617-14631.slice.gz 8 January Already received
VI03001_14618-14632.slice.gz 9 January Already received
VI03001_14619-14633.slice.gz 10 January Already received
VI03001_14620-14634.slice.gz 11 January Already received
VI03001_14621-14635.slice.gz 12 January Already received
VI03001_14622-14636.slice.gz 13 January Already received
VI03001_14623-14637.slice.gz 14 January Already received
VI13001_14616-14630.slice.gz 7 January Already received
VI13001_14617-14631.slice.gz 8 January Already received
VI13001_14618-14632.slice.gz 9 January Already received
VI13001_14619-14633.slice.gz 10 January Already received
VI13001_14620-14634.slice.gz 11 January Already received
VI13001_14621-14635.slice.gz 12 January Already received
VI13001_14622-14636.slice.gz 13 January Already received
VI03001_14626-14640.slice.gz 17 January May have downloaded
VI03001_14627-14641.slice.gz 18 January May have downloaded
VI03001_14629-14643.slice.gz 20 January May have downloaded
VI03001_14630-14644.slice.gz 21 January May have downloaded
VI03001_14631-14645.slice.gz 22 January May have downloaded
VI03001_14632-14646.slice.gz 23 January May have downloaded
VI03001_14633-14647.slice.gz 24 January May have downloaded
VI03001_14634-14648.slice.gz 25 January May have downloaded
VI03001_14635-14649.slice.gz 26 January May have downloaded
VI03001_14636-14650.slice.gz 27 January May have downloaded
VI13001_14626-14640.slice.gz 17 January May have downloaded
VI13001_14627-14641.slice.gz 18 January May have downloaded
VI13001_14629-14643.slice.gz 20 January May have downloaded
VI13001_14630-14644.slice.gz 21 January May have downloaded
VI13001_14631-14645.slice.gz 22 January May have downloaded
VI13001_14632-14646.slice.gz 23 January May have downloaded
VI13001_14633-14647.slice.gz 24 January May have downloaded
VI13001_14634-14648.slice.gz 25 January May have downloaded
VI13001_14635-14649.slice.gz 26 January May have downloaded
VI13001_14636-14650.slice.gz 27 January May have downloaded

[petestrash]

At this point can't tell if it is software or hardware corruption.

I suggest you reload all the slices available for VI13001 using these (http://www.oztivo.net/twiki/bin/view/Guidedata/ManualGuideDataLoadingToTivo) instructions.

If that does not clear the corruption, I'd suggest running some drive tests before going further.

Peter.

[IanQ]

Yep, tried than and none of the slice would load - they all die on the "dbload $db $file" line...

What drive tests (and how) can I run?

Ian

[petestrash]

Download seagates seatools utility (works for all brands)

How old is the drive?

Peter