Help me!!!!!!!!!

[tonys]

We've had occasional problems with our Tivo/Pace box not quite changing channels correctly, so this morning I used TivoWeb to go into PALGS mode, to change the remote speed, hoping that one setting slower would improve reliability. All was going well, I was in the middle of testing new settings when the Tivo suddenly rebooted itself! It then came up with a green screen saying 'a serious problem has occurred, leave alone for 3 hours, connected to the phone line, while it attempts to repair itself'
Arrggghh! Obviously it's still set to reboot in PALGS mode, it can't get a phone line connection, I can't get a network connection via Tivoweb or Putty, does this mean a complete reimage? I sincerely hope not, beyond my capabilities!

[tonys]

Ignore the above!!!!! Did as I was told, ie left it alone, and it's sorted itself out! Including rebooting back to normal PAL mode! This box keeps surprising me!

[Darren King]

Glad to hear it righted itself.

does this mean a complete reimage? I sincerely hope not, beyond my capabilities!

A reimage is about the simplest thing with owning a TiVo! It is a bootable CD installer and you just follow the menu prompts.

[tonys]

After the problems mentioned above, I checked the TVlog file and noticed the 'normal' clock warped messages, so did a touch timestamp and forced a reindex. All is fine, season passes recording OK etc, but seem to have lost endpadding. Checked the endpaad log file and it ends on Saturday with the message 'too many errors, stopping' Can I do anything to reactivate endpad?

[Tuatara]

On the command line, run something like

endpadplus.tcl 1 10 -auto &

and it should start up again. (That's to start recording one minute before time, and finish ten minutes after.) If that doesn't work, a reboot should start endpadplus again.

Cheers
Matt

[tonys]

Thanks Matt, did a reboot and it's started up just fine!
If I want to run the endpad.tcl to alter the amount of pad time, do I need to change the file system to read/write first?

[Tuatara]

But the best place to do that anyway is in the startup scripts, specifically in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.author , and you would need to be in RW mode to edit that file.