[mythtv-users] New slave immediately autoexpires recordings

[Steve Fallows]

I have had a single box system working well for about a year. I just setup a
slave backend on another machine (Hardware below). Both are KnoppMyth R5A15.

After some fiddling and learning about how mythtv-setup handles the capture
cards and the database, I now have both encoders showing up in the system
status. I have setup no NFS shares so I assume each machine will store its
recordings locally and stream them when played.

I was able to schedule two recordings simultaneously. After they started,
both were shown as in progress on MythWeb. However, after they finished the
one on the slave was gone. There were no other recordings on the slave.

The marked lines in this snippet of the slave backend log, imply that the
recording was autoexpired immediately upon finishing:

[list]2006-01-14 15:37:11.799 MainServer::HandleAnnounce FileTransfer
2006-01-14 15:37:11.803 adding: mythtv as a remote file transfer
2006-01-14 15:37:11.823 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2006-01-14 15:37:11.825 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0)
2006-01-14 15:44:11.122 autoexpire: Expired Program
<<<<<<<<<<< This seems to be the expiration of
2006-01-14 15:44:11.235 Finished recording Fox NFL Pregame on channel: 1013
<<<<<<<<<<< this
2006-01-14 15:44:11.274 scheduler: Finished recording
2006-01-14 15:44:11.335 Changing from RecordingOnly to None
2006-01-14 15:54:11.243 mythbackend: Last message repeated 3 times
2006-01-14 15:54:11.267 mythbackend: Autoexpire Recording
2006-01-14 15:54:11.269 ERROR when trying to autoexpire files.  No
recordings allowed to expire.[/list]

I guess I have a misconfiguration of some kind on the slave. (O some
misunderstanding of how slaves work.) The myth partition is only 4% used.
Should a slave even do autoexpire?

Thanks for any help.

Master Backend:
Tyan S1590S Trinity 100AT, AMD K6-2 500MHz, VIA MVP chipset
PVR 350, 160 MB RAM, 160 GB WD HD
KnoppMyth R4V5 -> R5A15

Slave Backend:
Dell Dimension 8100, 1.3GHz
WinTV Card, 768MB, 120 GB HD
KnoppMyth R5A15