Nextpvr GUI and Service will not start

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Hi,
I have been using NextPVR for a couple of years with few problems. Last night at 20:21 (important in that this is when the log entries stop), I went to watch Channel 5 (UK, Sutton Coldfield transmitter) and the GUI locked up when I selected 'Watch' from the NextPVR menu. I rebooted the machine (Windows 7 with latest NextPVR) and the GUI failed to start.
NextPVR Tray had started. I selected NextPVR tray to display the devices window, which was empty.
I stopped the NextPVR recording service (which issued the 'Stopped' dialog box OK).
I then attempted to restart the recording service and received an error message as follows:

Unable to start service: System.ServiceProcess.TimeoutException: Time out has expired and the operation has not completed.
at
System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController.WaitForStatus(ServiceControllerStatusdesiredStatus, Timespan timeout)
at Nctrl>program.Main(String[] args)

I have also attached a screenshot of this message as Capture.PNG

The GUI would not start either.
Having looked around the forum for similar problem, I saw that the output from FilterCheck was requested, so that is attached together with the zipped up logs.

I am using a Hauppauge WinTV-QuadHD. It appears to be working OK - as there are 2 entries in Windows device manager listing the device and using Hauppauge's WinTV application, I can successfully tune and liveview.

All help appreciated.

   

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Logs - the FilterCheck.log is also included in the Zip file.

[BrettB]

Hi,
I have been using NextPVR for a couple of years with few problems. Last night at 20:21 (important in that this is when the log entries stop), I went to watch Channel 5 (UK, Sutton Coldfield transmitter) and the GUI locked up when I selected 'Watch' from the NextPVR menu. I rebooted the machine (Windows 7 with latest NextPVR) and the GUI failed to start.
NextPVR Tray had started. I selected NextPVR tray to display the devices window, which was empty.
I stopped the NextPVR recording service (which issued the 'Stopped' dialog box OK).
I then attempted to restart the recording service and received an error message as follows:

Unable to start service: System.ServiceProcess.TimeoutException: Time out has expired and the operation has not completed.
at
System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController.WaitForStatus(ServiceControllerStatusdesiredStatus, Timespan timeout)
at Nctrl>program.Main(String[] args)

I have also attached a screenshot of this message as Capture.PNG

The GUI would not start either.
Having looked around the forum for similar problem, I saw that the output from FilterCheck was requested, so that is attached together with the zipped up logs.

I am using a Hauppauge WinTV-QuadHD. It appears to be working OK - as there are 2 entries in Windows device manager listing the device and using Hauppauge's WinTV application, I can successfully tune and liveview.

All help appreciated.

I don't know what caused the original problem, but I'm guessing that when it first happened, your config.xml file got corrupted (probably a 0 byte file now) and that is preventing the Recording Service from starting back up. I'd go look at the config.xml--see if it is 0 bytes. Even if it isn't, just try renaming it to something like config-bad.xml. When the Recording Service starts, it will create a new one with the default values. See if that gets the service back up and running.

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BrettB
config.xml LOOKED ok, but was obviously corrupt in some way, as renaming it allowed Nextpvr to start, just had to re-configure and all was OK.

Many thanks for the help.