[mythtv] Error in safe_read and writeblock

Allan Stirling Dibblahmythml0015 at pendor.org
Thu Mar 10 16:33:54 UTC 2005


Brian C. Huffman wrote:
> I'm running CVS from the evening of the 8th of March however I've seen this for
> some time, I think.  
> 
> If I allow the ringbuffer to fill while watching livetv and then I rewind all
> the way to the beginning of the ringbuffer (100%), it freezes for a while and
> once it returns if I once again hit rewind, then I see a couple of things.  the
> status indicator shows over 100%full and I see the following messages in the
> backend log:
> 
> ERROR: file I/O problem in 'safe_read()': Bad address

Is your video directory NFS1/2 mounted?

There may or may not be a 2Gb file size limit, which is removed with NFS3.

Cheers,

Allan.


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