[mythtv-users] mythbackend mysteriously dying

[Xiaotian Sun]

On 4/21/05, Xiaotian Sun <sun.xiaotian at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/21/05, Loren H. Burlingame
> <there.can.be.only.two.apparently at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I am also having this problem (also running Gentoo and MythTV .17).
> >
> > I think I finally narrowed it down to a specific circumstance, though.
> > Whenever both PVR-250s end recording at the exact same time the second
> > instance fails to make a database query and the whole thing crashes. I
> > have been too busy to try and fix it but it has been happening ever
> > since I added the second tuner.
> >
> 
> I only have one card, pcHDTV-3000, and mythbackend still dies.  It
> happened twice yesterday while I was watching TV.  Examined the
> mythbackend.log, which I have verbose logging enabled, and messages,
> nothing strange showed up.
> 

I kind of figured out why my mythbackend dies (I think).  It is indeed
hard drive related, but not because of disk failure, but because of
file size limit.  Mythbackend always dies when the recording file
reaches 4GB.

> > --
> > Loren H. Burlingame <loren at lhb.name>
> 
> Xiaotian
> 

Xiaotian