[mythtv-users] Myth seems to have lost the ability to record

Bob Sully rcs at malibyte.net
Thu Jan 4 00:53:55 UTC 2007


I have scheduled several recordings over the past couple of days, both
with the analog and digital tuners (pcHDTV 5500 card) - none have been
able to record - it goes through the motions, the backend status page in
Mythweb says it's recording, but there are zero-byte files present in the
recordings directory and error messages in the logs, but I'm not sure what
the latter messages mean:


2007-01-03 16:10:06.606 Preview Error: Previewer file
'/mythtv/recordings/1790_20070103155900.mpg' is not valid.
2007-01-03 16:10:06.608 MainServer: Failed to make preview image.
2007-01-03 16:10:06.609 MainServer::HandleAnnounce FileTransfer
2007-01-03 16:10:06.610 adding: vader.malibyte.net as a remote file transfer
2007-01-03 16:10:13.112
RingBuf(/mythtv/recordings/1790_20070103155900.mpg.png): Could not open
/mythtv/recordings/1790_20070103155900.mpg.png.
2007-01-03 16:10:13.114 Preview Error: Previewer file
'/mythtv/recordings/1057_20070103020300.mpg' is not valid.
2007-01-03 16:10:13.116 MythSocket(2aaaabede780:-1): writeStringList:
Error, socket went unconnected.
2007-01-03 16:10:13.116 MainServer: Failed to make preview image.
2007-01-03 16:10:13.140 MainServer::HandleAnnounce FileTransfer
2007-01-03 16:10:13.144 adding: vader.malibyte.net as a remote file transfer
2007-01-03 16:10:19.648
RingBuf(/mythtv/recordings/1057_20070103020300.mpg.png): Could not open
/mythtv/recordings/1057_20070103020300.mpg.png.
2007-01-03 16:10:19.664 MythSocket(2aaaabc0c340:-1): writeStringList:
Error, socket went unconnected.


Here's a listing of the storage directory.  There are two successful
recordings, made on Monday, the 1st.  Every one I've tried since then has
failed.  The perms on the directory are mythv.mythtv, 777, as seen below.


[root at vader: /home/rcs]$ cd /mythtv/recordings/
[root at vader: /mythtv/recordings]$ lsl
total 34569040
drwxrwxrwx  2 mythtv mythtv       28672 Jan  3 15:59 ./
drwxrwxrwx  3 mythtv mythtv           8 Aug 29 02:05 ../
-rw-r--r--  1 root   root       4749644 Dec 31 14:00 1057_20061231140020.nuv
-rw-r--r--  1 root   root     131825495 Jan  2 19:24 1057_20070102192151.nuv
-rw-r--r--  1 root   root             0 Jan  3 02:03 1057_20070103020300.mpg
-rw-r--r--  1 root   root             0 Jan  3 15:59 1790_20070103155900.mpg
-rw-r--r--  1 root   root             0 Dec 31 14:00 1792_20061231140033.mpg
-rw-r--r--  1 root   root   11932064276 Jan  1 10:01 1941_20070101075900.mpg
-rw-rw-rw-  1 root   root         31276 Jan  2 17:51
1941_20070101075900.mpg.png
-rw-r--r--  1 root   root   21214949676 Jan  1 17:16 1941_20070101134400.mpg
-rw-rw-rw-  1 root   root         30247 Jan  2 17:51
1941_20070101134400.mpg.png
-rw-r--r--  1 root   root     150557356 Jan  2 19:19 1941_20070102191651.mpg
-rw-r--r--  1 root   root    1964424032 Jan  2 19:56 1941_20070102193227.mpg
-rw-rw-rw-  1 mythtv mythtv           0 Jan  2 18:32 nfslockfile.lock


I can watch live TV, so it's able to write to this directory.

I'd appreciate it if someone could clue me in as to what's going on...!

Many thanks!
Bob

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