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Permanent *Deleting...
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| Tue 14 Aug 2012 10:58:21 #41 |
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All OK till the last command. I get:
humax# pkill sleep
sh: pkill: not found
humax#
humax#| Tue 14 Aug 2012 10:58:52 #42 | -
Use 'killall sleep' instead.
| Tue 14 Aug 2012 11:00:39 #43 | -
Done a ls -la and the filebglastop.dat file has been deleted!
Machine is in standby now and won't wake up!
| Tue 14 Aug 2012 11:01:27 #44 | -
The Humax software is not running so it won't respond to the remote control or button presses at the moment. Killing the sleep process should allow the software to restart and bring things back to normal, otherwise power cycle it and you should be fine.
| Tue 14 Aug 2012 11:02:37 #45 | -
killall sleep seemed to work ...
AND THE * DELETING... HAS GONE!
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
I'll check that it can record, pause live TV etc. and post back here, and also write and post a quick summary of what I had to do in case it will help others.
| Tue 14 Aug 2012 11:04:42 #46 | -
Quick summary of the steps taken to fix the * Deleting... problem
Overview: Basically a power failure while it was deleting caused the Humax box to think it was always deleting and so it could not record, pause live TV or delete anything else. To fix this the file /mnt/hd1/filebglastop.dat has to be deleted on the Humax box. Note that Humax Customer Service assured my wife that the hard drive in the humax box was physically broken and the machine had to be returned to them for either a replacement machine or to have a new hard drive put into it. Eitherway, all recordings would have been lost!
To get in to the humax box to delete the file, these are the steps I needed to do for my machine...
1 - Enable telnet client in Windows 7 on laptop
2 - Connect laptop to turned ON humax box via crossover network cable (Under £5 from a local shop)
3 - Open up COMMAND PROMPT on the laptop: Start > ALL PROGRAMS > ACCESSORIES > COMMAND PROMPT
4 - View the network details of the new network connection and make a note of them, especially the IP Address of the Humax box - for me it was NOT the same as the IP address read from the Humax box itself.
5 - Enter the command: telnet <IP ADDRESS OF THE HUMAX BOX>
6 - When the humax# prompt appears, give the following four commands:
/etc/init.d/S90settop shut
rm /mnt/hd1/filebglastop.dat
rm /tmp/.humaxtv.holddown
killall sleep
7 - Check that the * Deleting... tag has gone from the Video menu
8 - Reboot the machine.
9 - Check that it is all working properly!
For some of these steps I had to search the internet for how to do them, but it was relatively easy to do and once the solution was known, getting there took about 4 hours of time overall - and this is my first time connecting ANYTHING other than a HDMI and coax cable to my humax box.
Thank you to everyone who posted and helped solve this problem!
| Tue 14 Aug 2012 12:36:28 #47 | -
Don't forget that you had to install the custom firmware too
| Tue 14 Aug 2012 12:41:12 #48 | -
Hi!
Yes - the custom firmware was installed first of all.
BTW - the fix worked for about 12 hours before my wife tried to delete something while the humax box was recording. The same problem occured, but now I know what to do, it was easily fixed.
Thank you!
| Wed 15 Aug 2012 8:42:48 #49 | -
I think I would try a factory reset after fixing it.
| Wed 15 Aug 2012 9:49:26 #50 |
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