Nz Tivo!!

[David Stott]

Wibble. Have tried to use the Ultimate Boot CD software you recommended but after installing it, it recommends running UBCD4WinBuilder.exe. This comes up and immediately fails as it can't find subfolder C:/UBCD4Win/i386. Since it created C:/UBCD4Win as part of the installation process, this hardly seems my fault.

Any ideas as to what I should do now?

David

[petestrash]

Peter

Found it under More.

PhoneConfig 2276/10 {

DialConfig = 127

Ok I'm back, that's what I was looking for.

So right now it is set to use emuproxy. Lets bypass that and see what happens.

In tclient.conf, an you put a # in front of the line below the emuproxy comment so it looks like this #127::127.0.0.1:8000::: and add a new line at the bottom that looks like this 127::210.48.107.133:8000:::

reboot and try again.

Peter.

[David Stott]

Peter

Made that change , rebooted and went through GS. Same result as before except that now back to the old situation of it taking a full 16 minutes to fail.

Here's confirmation of my change:

# This uses emuProxy2 to avoid problems with transparent proxy. Thanks Tim!
#127::127.0.0.1:8000:::
127::210.48.107.133:8000:::



David

[petestrash]

Do you have a /var/log/tclient file?

If you do please post it.

Peter.

Ps I don't think you are having drive issue. But it just shouldn't be this hard to get a Philips unit going in NZ.

[David Stott]

Peter

Log of tonight's run attached.

David

[petestrash]

Have you actually completed the guided setup?

Is this log from trying to run the guided setup, or is it from you trying to force a daily call?

Peter.

[David Stott]

Peter - I have always run GS. Never just a daily call. The GS has failed EVERY TIME at the "Connecting ..." stage. The only variation has been in how long it takes to fail, which has varied from 1 minute (at my friends house with different Router, telco, and ISP), to 16 minutes (when I first started running it and now with your latest change). Before the latest change it was failing after 3 -4 minutes.

David

[Wibble]

Wibble. Have tried to use the Ultimate Boot CD software you recommended but after installing it, it recommends running UBCD4WinBuilder.exe. This comes up and immediately fails as it can't find subfolder C:/UBCD4Win/i386. Since it created C:/UBCD4Win as part of the installation process, this hardly seems my fault.
Any ideas as to what I should do now?
David

This doesn't sound right.

You want to download the ISO image, burn it to cd then boot off it on a PC with the tivo drive plugged in (and to be safe any other drive unplugged)

Here's one of the mirrors:
http://www.ausgamers.com/files/details/html/28473

[Wibble]

Log of tonight's run attached.
David

You are now connecting to the server but are failing part way through.
If you look at the times, it fails and times out on "XferRqst timeout waiting to read"

Your log:

Sep 22 21:32:20 (none) comm[153]: CommUtil: connection to host 210.48.107.133, port 8000, err 0x0
Sep 22 21:32:20 (none) comm[153]: Uploading HTTP Header for modLog of /var/log/svclog: POST /tivo-service/mlog.cgi HTTP/1.0^M Content-Length: 1432^M ^M
Sep 22 21:32:20 (none) comm[153]: read HTTP Header: HTTP/1.1 200 OK^M Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 09:32:15 GMT^M Server: Apache/2.0.54 (Mandriva Linux/PREFORK-13.3.20060mdk) mod_ssl/2.0.54 OpenSSL/0.9.7g PHP/5.0.4 mod_perl/2.0.1 Perl/v5.8.7^M Connection: close^M Content-Type: text/plain; charset=IS
Sep 22 21:32:20 (none) comm[153]: O-8859-1
Sep 22 21:32:20 (none) comm[153]: SvcLogRqst::verify: enter
Sep 22 21:32:20 (none) comm[153]: SvcLogRqst::verify: unlink(/var/log/svclog.upload)ed (status = 0)
Sep 22 21:32:20 (none) comm[153]: CommUtil: connection to host 210.48.107.133, port 8000, err 0x0
Sep 22 21:32:20 (none) comm[153]: read 384 bytes of upload data for FourOneOneRqst
Sep 22 21:32:21 (none) comm[153]: CommUtil: connection to host 210.48.107.133, port 8000, err 0x0
Sep 22 21:32:21 (none) comm[153]: read 1892 bytes of upload data for HServerRqst
Sep 22 21:35:17 (none) comm[153]: XferRqst timeout waiting to read
Sep 22 21:46:22 (none) WatchdogAction[149]: WatchdogAction::Trigger: callActive for 900 interval-secs
Sep 22 21:47:45 (none) comm[153]: drainGetPostQ: doXfer failed err=65535 (0xffff)
Sep 22 21:47:45 (none) comm[153]: NetAgent: drainPostQ failed, err = 0xffff


Here's my working log:
Sep 23 00:51:29 (none) comm[153]: Uploading HTTP Header for modLog of /var/log/svclog: POST /tivo-service/mlog.cgi HTTP/1.0^M Content-Length: 753^M ^M
Sep 23 00:51:29 (none) comm[153]: read HTTP Header: HTTP/1.1 200 OK^M Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 12:51:32 GMT^M Server: Apache/2.0.54 (Mandriva Linux/PREFORK-13.3.20060mdk) mod_
ssl/2.0.54 OpenSSL/0.9.7g PHP/5.0.4 mod_perl/2.0.1 Perl/v5.8.7^M Connection: close^M Content-Type: text/plain; charset=IS
Sep 23 00:51:29 (none) comm[153]: O-8859-1
Sep 23 00:51:29 (none) comm[153]: SvcLogRqst::verify: enter
Sep 23 00:51:29 (none) comm[153]: SvcLogRqst::verify: unlink(/var/log/svclog.upload)ed (status = 0)
Sep 23 00:51:29 (none) comm[153]: couldn't stat input file, reason = No such file or directory
Sep 23 00:51:29 (none) comm[153]: NetAgent::doXfer: open failed on Rqst : No such file or directory
Sep 23 00:51:29 (none) comm[153]: drainGetPostQ: doXfer failed err=65535 (0xffff)
Sep 23 00:51:29 (none) comm[153]: Xfer Performance Log says errors are Ok!
Sep 23 00:51:29 (none) comm[153]: CommUtil: connection to host 127.0.0.1, port 8000, err 0x0
Sep 23 00:51:29 (none) comm[153]: read 384 bytes of upload data for FourOneOneRqst
Sep 23 00:51:29 (none) comm[153]: CommUtil: connection to host 127.0.0.1, port 8000, err 0x0
Sep 23 00:51:29 (none) comm[153]: read 2111 bytes of upload data for HServerRqst
Sep 23 00:51:30 (none) comm[153]: HTTP header: HTTP/1.1 200 OK^M
Sep 23 00:51:30 (none) comm[153]: HTTP header: Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 12:51:33 GMT^M
Sep 23 00:51:30 (none) comm[153]: HTTP header: Server: Apache/2.0.54 (Mandriva Linux/PREFORK-13.3.20060mdk) mod_ssl/2.0.54 OpenSSL/0.9.7g PHP/5.0.4 mod_perl/2.0.1 Perl/v5.8.
7^M
Sep 23 00:51:30 (none) comm[153]: HTTP header: Connection: close^M
Sep 23 00:51:30 (none) comm[153]: HTTP header: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1^M
Sep 23 00:51:30 (none) comm[153]: HTTP header: ^M
Sep 23 00:51:30 (none) comm[153]: Start TCD411Resp =====================


So your network setup looks goods. The only things I can think of is a flacky disk or a flacky network.

[David Stott]

This doesn't sound right.

You want to download the ISO image, burn it to cd then boot off it on a PC with the tivo drive plugged in (and to be safe any other drive unplugged)

Here's one of the mirrors:
http://www.ausgamers.com/files/details/html/28473

Thanks Wibble, that site looks better. Somehow following the previous site I ended up with a .exe file of a much older version of the software anyway (3.2.0).

However, starting up a PC with a CDRom with the 4.1.1 version of the .iso file copied to it and just the TiVo hard disk in the PC produced the following:

"Managed PC Boot Agent (MBA) v3.10
Copyright, etc, etc

Node: 00500462EF12
DHCP . . .
TFTP . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Error:

Network boot aborted.
Press any key to continue

(which I did)

Operating System not found"

So does that mean I should have my standard C: PC disk in place and put the TiVo into the D: drive space instead and then boot with the CDROM loaded?

Sorry that it must seem like pulling teeth to get me to do the right thing but I did warn at the outset that I'm highly non-technical. Perhaps I should also have added "apt to chose the wrong option at every opportunity".

David