[mythtv-users] Press R while watching Live TV ==> Frontend hang

[Ashley Bostock]

I think it maybe a much wider problem, it affects my myth box, when I
hit r it hangs the frontend, this is on a standard reiserfs partition
and I know it does the same on a friends box using ext3.


On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 06:28:50 -0700, Donavan Stanley
<geckofiend at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 00:28:49 -0800, John Andersen
> <jsa at video.homelinux.org> wrote:
> > How long will it be before there exists download-able tar-balls of
> > those things that have been fixed in CVS?   A 0.16.1 was hinted
> > at on the myth web site.  Is this likely any time soon?
> 
> It's *possible* Isaac might do a .16.1 release for this bug, but since
> it doesn't effect everyone I wouldn't hold my breath.  This particular
> bug only seems to affect people using high performance file systems
> (possibly over a certain percentage full).  Of all the developers I
> think I was the only one affected and it took me a while to figure out
> exactly what the problem was. (Myth buffers output so as not to hammer
> the disk.  xfs delays writing data till the last possible instant.  If
> xfs delays too long in it's write Myth is allowed to open a file that
> can't yet be read from.)
> 
> 
> > (Some of us have been involved in other projects where there
> > were as many new bugs as fixes introduced in CVS.)
> 
> Almost everything that's been commited to CVS since .16 has been a bug
> fix.   As of last night the two really annoying bug involving
> recordings and live tv have been fixed so now might be a good time to
> upgrade if you're so inclined.
> 
> Myth CVS stays pretty solid overall.  I run it on my MBE / primary FE.
> 
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