[mythtv-users] autoexpire but the file isn't there?

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Thu Apr 26 19:04:18 UTC 2007


On 04/26/2007 02:56 PM, aaron wrote:
> On 26/04/07, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
>   
>> On 04/26/2007 02:30 PM, Rich West wrote:
>>     
>>> Hrmm.. I just noticed that, over the course of the last two days, I'm
>>> seeing a lot of the following error message:
>>>
>>> "ERROR when trying to autoexpire file:
>>> /video/4294967295_20070423233053.mpg. File doesn't exist. Database
>>> metadata will not be removed."
>> It just means it's not going to remove the recording information from
>> your database. 
> I've only got lowly analog cable, so maybe I don't see what I think I
> see, but the filename looks funny to me....
>
> 4294967295 == 0xFFFFFFFF
>
> like an uninitialised variable or somesuch. Could that be why the file
> doesn't exist? :)

Oh, that...  Good catch.  :)  There's definitely something wrong there.

Before looking at the code, it's probably good to look at the database 
to see if there's an invalid chanid (and/or channel record) in there to 
help narrow down which code caused the bad value...

select chanid from channel;

Mike


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