[mythtv] Error in safe_read and writeblock

Steven mythmail at richardstraat.homedns.org
Thu Mar 10 18:10:17 UTC 2005


Allan Stirling schreef:

> 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.
>
I've seen it on a combined BE/FE and also on a remote frontend. I've 
sent in a backtrace a couple of weeks ago 
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/111415 and the problem 
is also in Bugzilla : http://www.mythtv.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=228


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