[mythtv] TVRec: Timed out waiting for lock -- aborting recording

Daniel Kristjansson danielk at cuymedia.net
Thu Sep 8 13:18:22 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 21:52 -0600, John P Poet wrote:
> On 9/7/05, Daniel Kristjansson <danielk at cuymedia.net> wrote:
> Actually, I did tell it to scan, but I did *not* tell it to clear the
> channels first.  After telling it to clear the channels, it looks like
> the scan was able to do something productive.
Hmmm, this looks like a bug in the update code.

> I don't really like the
> "chanid" it picked, but I can easily adjust that.
I believe it tries to pick a human friendly chanid key, but then falls
back to some randomish unique key if it can't find one.

> Unfortunately, I did immediately find a problem.  When I setup the
> inputs, I told each one to start on channel 5-1.  When I started
> mythbackend, cards 0, 2 and 3 all successfully tuned to that channel. 
> Card 1, however, failed.  I have attached the log.
I believe this is fixed in 7207.

-- Daniel



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