[mythtv] How to debug "file not found" ?

[John P Poet]

On 6/13/06, John P Poet <jppoet at gmail.com> wrote:
> Three times in the last five days, I have gone to watch a recording
> and had the frontend tell me "The file for this recording cannot be
> found".  Each of the three times, the file in question lived on a
> slave backend.
>
> The frontend log has:
>
> 2006-06-13 23:00:23.376 PlaybackBox::play(): Error,
> myth://192.168.2.51:6543/1011_20060411190000.mpg file not found
>
> The file *does* exist.  Mplayer will play it just fine.
>
> The frontend used to be able to play this file.  I even adjusted the
> commercial cut points shortly after the file was recorded, but now it
> refused to play it.
>
> What verbose options do I need to give the backends/frontend to help
> diagnose this problem?
>

Restarting the frontend had no effect.

Restarting the slave backend had no effect.

Restarting the master backend fixed the problem.

Now I have to wonder how long it will take before it happens again...

John