No Live TV - Kicks Back To Menu

[OldSkoolVWLover]

Sub (or anyone else)-

Any chance you can help me out? As the title states, I select Live TV (or a current show from the guide), and it hangs for a second with blank screen then just kicks back to the menu. I have been running gbpvr for months now with no issues. A few months back I did a clean install of Windows XP on my HTPC and got everything set back up just fine. Now recently (the last few weeks or so), I can no longer watch Live TV. I have also had an issue with new one time only recordings failing, while all my series recordings continue to record just fine and are watchable with no issues.

I had figured that I had a error in my config file or somewhere else, so this morning I went and unistalled gbpvr (found that windows wasn't completely uninstalling so I renamed directory), and then reinstalled a completely clean install (in the normal directory). I am still getting no Live TV at this point, I have checked and I am pretty sure I have the tuner setup exactly as it was before. I have attached my logs....


My only thought is that somewhere outside of my GBPVR directory I have a file missing or corrupt. I have tried searching for this issue but have not found anything similar to my issue.


After looking a lil further before posting I found that in pvrx2.exe.log I am seeing this error at a point where it looks to me like Live TV is attempting to load "Unexpected error: System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it 127.0.0.1:7968".

When I found that, I assumed it can be anything, including firewall, the latest Windows XP update, etc. So I did go and disable my Ad-Aware Live protection, I also allowed PVR2.exe full access thru my McAfee firewall. I have not intentionally made any recent changed to gbpvr's access, but thinking an update to a program could have automatically blocked something I need open. One last note, when I allowed pvr2.exe full access, I then attempted to open Live TV and the blank screen pause was longer before returning to the menu, but I still did not get sound or picture.

If I am on the right path, please let me know what the minimal access gbpvr needs so that I am not opening up access to or from the HTPC that isn't needed.

Also I can still access some of my older logs and settings if needed. I figured trouble shooting the clean install would be the best. I am on a Win XP machine that I believe is currently up to date (all SP's and what not), when doing the clean install I also removed my C++ files and reinstalled vcredist_x86.



Thanks in advance-

[sub]

2010-02-20 14:50:32.984 VERBOSE [1] System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: An attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its access permissions 127.0.0.1:7968

Its definitely firewall or antivirus software that is not allowing the front end to communicate with the GBPVR Recording Service process.

There are some other ports used, but 7968 is the most critical, and the one not working here.

[OldSkoolVWLover]

I am still narrowing it down to specifics. The latest version of McAfee changed some of my firewall settings and program permissions. I haven't 100% nailed it down, I do have everything functioning again. It seams that even though I was changing the program permission to allow outbound traffic (pvrx2.exe and gbpvrrecordingservice.exe), McAfee was already allowing outbound for config.exe, the firewall was still blocking pvrx2.exe and gbpvrrecoringservice.exe. So my quick fix was to go into the firewall log and see where it was blocking those 2 programs. Once allowing outbound access from the log I appear to be functional again (copied back over my old setup from the backup drive as well).

I will work to attempt to refine these setting and post anything else I find here. The whole time I have been using gbpvr I have run some for of McAfee virus scan/firewall/etc. without issue, so it was something to do with the latest update or a combination of the McAfee update and something else. I also removed .net 3.5 since I had read of some issues with it and gbpvr as well as other software.

Thanks again for the quick response sub. Needed a lil motivation to keep hammering away on it.

[sub]

Great. Sounds like you're on the right track.

[Satori]

I have this same issue. The error in the logs (attached) is below. I don't use any antivirus or firewall SW so I am guessing the windows FW was activated? I noticed there was an update overnight last night but I did a system restore to yesterday and it still didn't work. I will look at the MS FW but does anyone know if it may be something else? Alternatively I could go back to my acronis disk image from a week and a half ago.

2010-04-28 07:29:09.760 ERROR [1] StartRecordingLiveTV() failed: System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it 127.0.0.1:7968

Server stack trace:
at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.DoConnect(EndPoint endPointSnapshot, SocketAddress socketAddress)
at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.Connect(EndPoint remoteEP)
at System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.RemoteConnection.CreateNewSocket(EndPoint ipEndPoint)
at System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.RemoteConnection.CreateNewSocket()
at System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.RemoteConnection.GetSocket()
at System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.SocketCache.GetSocket(String machinePortAndSid, Boolean openNew)
at System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.Tcp.TcpClientTransportSink.SendRequestWithRetry(IMessage msg, ITransportHeaders requestHeaders, Stream requestStream)
at System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.Tcp.TcpClientTransportSink.ProcessMessage(IMessage msg, ITransportHeaders requestHeaders, Stream requestStream, ITransportHeaders& responseHeaders, Stream& responseStream)
at System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.BinaryClientFormatterSink.SyncProcessMessage(IMessage msg)

Exception rethrown at [0]:
at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RealProxy.HandleReturnMessage(IMessage reqMsg, IMessage retMsg)
at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RealProxy.PrivateInvoke(MessageData& msgData, Int32 type)
at GBPVR.Backend.Common.IRecordingService.x394caf1b3184110c(Int32 x70cd72e44179c0c2, Boolean x03f525c749695de4, Int32 x164f120fb8d3ddc7, String& x8b1d9e3189e6e73d, Int32& x73dd716c35ea457b)
at GBPVR.Backend.Common.x396614b3dae3b1da.x06b549b1ade7b16c(Int32 x70cd72e44179c0c2, Boolean x69d720e971206ea6, Programme& x5d1dc8495c0908a9)
2010-04-28 07:29:09.761 VERBOSE [1]
Server stack trace:
at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.DoConnect(EndPoint endPointSnapshot, SocketAddress socketAddress)
at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.Connect(EndPoint remoteEP)
at System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.RemoteConnection.CreateNewSocket(EndPoint ipEndPoint)
at System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.RemoteConnection.CreateNewSocket()
at System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.RemoteConnection.GetSocket()
at System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.SocketCache.GetSocket(String machinePortAndSid, Boolean openNew)
at System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.Tcp.TcpClientTransportSink.SendRequestWithRetry(IMessage msg, ITransportHeaders requestHeaders, Stream requestStream)
at System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.Tcp.TcpClientTransportSink.ProcessMessage(IMessage msg, ITransportHeaders requestHeaders, Stream requestStream, ITransportHeaders& responseHeaders, Stream& responseStream)
at System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.BinaryClientFormatterSink.SyncProcessMessage(IMessage msg)

Exception rethrown at [0]:
at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RealProxy.HandleReturnMessage(IMessage reqMsg, IMessage retMsg)
at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RealProxy.PrivateInvoke(MessageData& msgData, Int32 type)
at GBPVR.Backend.Common.IRecordingService.x394caf1b3184110c(Int32 x70cd72e44179c0c2, Boolean x03f525c749695de4, Int32 x164f120fb8d3ddc7, String& x8b1d9e3189e6e73d, Int32& x73dd716c35ea457b)
at GBPVR.Backend.Common.x396614b3dae3b1da.x06b549b1ade7b16c(Int32 x70cd72e44179c0c2, Boolean x69d720e971206ea6, Programme& x5d1dc8495c0908a9)
2010-04-28 07:29:09.862 ERROR [1] Unexpected error: GBPVR.Backend.Common.GbpvrException: Failed to communicate with the Recording Service.
at GBPVR.Backend.Common.x396614b3dae3b1da.x06b549b1ade7b16c(Int32 x70cd72e44179c0c2, Boolean x69d720e971206ea6, Programme& x5d1dc8495c0908a9)
at GBPVRX2.Players.xbe83d16b02243330.x4276385f71addb51(Channel xee500015fb4a65b6)
at GBPVRX2.x4a212861656a24dd.x3852f96f8dab4cab(Channel xee500015fb4a65b6)
at GBPVRX2.xb654004a5183e7df.handlePopupCallback(Object popup, String command)
at GBPVRX2.Popups.xce4851a7361cb73d.GetRenderList()
at GBPVRX2.xb654004a5183e7df.GetRenderList()
at GBPVRX2.MenuTask.x9006c1ed9ccb79de.GetRenderList()
at GBPVRX2.x0061b801bdf12d35.xdb012c437aec4a40(Boolean xd23bf32f3b17e3be)
at GBPVRX2.xb979ad394703258e.xfb409e85bd292293(String[] xf18a926310372520)

[Satori]

It was the GBPVR service crashing due to MSCORWKS.DLL. I guess from the MS update that night. I googled MSCORWKS.DLL it is part of .NET 2.0 so there was no way to uninstall or update the file in Vista. For some reason using windows restore didn't solve it even though I tried using restore points from two weeks ago.

I reimaged using Acronis and all is well. One note, Acronis refused to reimage the drive on the machine itself even though it is supposed to be able to. I had to remove the drive and reimage it on another machine, what a pain. I think I will give Norton Ghost a try it seems to have better reviews.

The moral is to have a semi recent disk image. Otherwise you may have to reinstall windows if this happens. My image was from 2 1/2 weeks ago but it works perfectly and I just used the recordings dump from the night before. All my media is on a separate disk so no issues there either.