Fault codes

[fuzzweed]

Has anyone thought of collecting a list of common fault codes from the logs to put on the wiki to help people self diagnose GBPVR problems?

[McBainUK]

What do you mean by fault codes? The logs tend to be rather verbose and more descriptive / story like.

[fuzzweed]

Well, just some kind of way to help people interpret their own log files. Take my recent post http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=40134
I found

Code:

DVB EPG error reading xml: System.Xml.XmlException: Root element is missing.

in recordingservice log and thats as far as I got. Sub however knew to look in recordingservice-native log for:

Code:

VERBOSE FindFilterByName failed to locate filter: GB-PVR PSI Parser

(and note this is a VERBOSE, not ERROR, so easily overlooked unless you know what you're looking for)

and of course the solution is to reregister filters.

Also in client setups there's a lot of 'can't connect to recording service' or similar posted in peoples logs- which generally means a firewall or typo in the server name.

I just get the impression that there ought to be a handfull(?) of common things the logs tell can us, with reasonable simple answers, or clues to the fault, that the more advanced user could use to fault find themselves.

Maybe start with a list of what each log covers in terms of action - it wasn't immediately obvious to me that the recordingservice would cover the EPG for example - and I still have no idea of the difference between a normal log and a -native log.

[stustunz]

i normally just paste the fault into the search untill it pops up with the answer i want

[fuzzweed]

I agree, and I do this too (System.Xml.XmlException doesn't bring up anything!) but even this sort advice is missing from the wiki - so more generally then;
Is there a place for a fault finding section on the wiki? And if so what can it usefully contain?