D'OH! STV install attempt FRAGGED SAGE!!!

[lonndoggie]

What HAVE I done?!?!

Thought I'd try Malore's STV as it sounds like it's got some nice features I'd make use of (and not a lot of others I wouldn't). Wanting to be totally safe (famous last words), I stopped sage, made a backup copy of the whole OriginalV2 folder, unzipped his file, edited sage.properties, and restarted sage.

Black, empty screen.

After much nashing of teeth, going back to Originalv2.stv, reboots, repair reinstalls, etc. etc., all to no avail, I decided to go look at the sage service. It was stopped. Started it, and then I got my UI back. Even Malore's UI.

BUT--

I have no channels (a channel scan just runs forever).
My recorded programs are gone (the files are still in the directory, which Sage still points at).
Needless to say my favorites settings are gone.
And my video settings are wierdly tampered with (e.g., it remembers which codec I was using, but not what DXVA settings).

This truly sucks. It shouldn't be so easy to so totally disable this application.

[phantomfsoc]

Did you backup you wiz.bin and sage.properties files? cause those are the ones that keep all that info. If you overwrote them... you're probably screwed. The best you can try is to close sage down, and rename wiz.bak to wiz.bin, and maybe your'll get lucky

[lonndoggie]

Thanks for the suggestion, but apparently I'm not lucky. Both wiz.bin and wiz.bak have timestamps that are before I started my install, and wiz.bak is quite a bit larger--but sage acts identically when I replace .bin with .bak.

Sage.properties I did edit, but restored it back to originalv2.stv (the only change I made).

Time for one of these:

[Opus4]

Have you tried deleting the properties file & reconfiguring everything? If you still have the old wiz.bin/bak files, make copies of those, then keep using wiz.bin & completely redo just the properties. I don't think that STV would have caused a problem, but you should probably be using v2.1 before using it.

- Andy

[lonndoggie]

It keeps getting worse...

So exploring the vast wasteland that is my newly addled Sage TV installation, I thought I'd see if it can at least find the library videos I've put in my Sage library folder.

Clicking on "Imported Video Files", it hangs, chewing up 100% CPU.

I left it running and went to bed.

Came back this AM, still has CPU pegged.

Again, it's hard to imagine how this could've gotten SO messed up, and that it can't recover.

[lonndoggie]

Opus4, thanks for the response. Amazing how I can't reconfigure anything now (it can't find any of my cable channels, even though it remembers my cable provider and my capture card). I'm obviously heading towards a clean reinstall anyway, so I'll try your suggestion first.

I am running 2.1.10, and I've made copies--on another drive--of the wiz files.

I agree, don't see how the STV install could've gone so wrong.

[lonndoggie]

Deleting the sage.properties files worked! I'm operational again, and I've got my favorites and my previously recorded files back.

I tried using FC to compare the old, bad properties file with the newly generated one, and the differences are just too vast for it to cope with after a while, but it appears that there are a lot more entries in the bad file than the good, newly generated file, and some look as if they are there to support the new stv features. Obviously, it got corrupted somewhere in that process.

Thanks.

(hmmm...now, should I try that stv thang again?)