[mythtv-users] Problem with PVR500 recording on trunk (19435 through 19580)

Rob mythtv at rob-a.com
Tue Jan 6 05:26:19 UTC 2009


My setup:
Kubuntu 8.10, kernel 2.6.27-11
pcHDTV-5500
PVR500

This setup has worked with various releases of Kubuntu for several years
(I also tested it again today with a spare drive and a clean install of
0.21).

I've been on trunk for a while and upgraded it a couple of times in
December.  I have 2 issues now:
1) One of those upgrades broke recording on the PVR500 (the pcHDTV card
still records fine).  I tried reverting to 19435 and have gone to the
19580 (the latest as of a few hours ago).  I also tried removing the
pcHDTV just to isolate any hardware interference..
[19435]:
2009-01-05 18:59:29.495 TVRec(1): ASK_RECORDING 1 29 0 0
2009-01-05 19:00:02.216 TVRec(1): Changing from None to RecordingOnly
2009-01-05 19:00:02.225 TVRec(1): HW Tuner: 1->1
2009-01-05 19:00:02.480 Started recording: Anthony Bourdain: No
Reservations "Mexico": channel 1071 on cardid 1, sourceid 12009-01-05
19:00:36.828 RingBuf(/mythtv/recordings/1071_20090105190000.mpg) Error:
Invalid file descriptor in 'safe_read()'
2009-01-05 19:00:36.831
RingBuf(/mythtv/recordings/1071_20090105190000.mpg) Warning: Peek()
requested 2048 bytes, but only returning 0
2009-01-05 19:00:36.833 NVP::OpenFile(): Error, couldn't read file:
/mythtv/recordings/1071_20090105190000.mpg

[19580]:
2009-01-05 20:13:48.443 TVRec(1): ASK_RECORDING 1 0 0 0
2009-01-05 20:13:48.464 TVRec(1): Changing from None to RecordingOnly
2009-01-05 20:13:48.476 TVRec(1): HW Tuner: 1->1
2009-01-05 20:13:48.673 Started recording: The Big Bang Theory "The
Griffin Equivalency": channel 1005 on cardid 1, sourceid 1
[...]
2009-01-05 20:14:00.226 Preview Error: Previewer file
'/mythtv/recordings/1005_20090105201400.mpg' is not valid.
2009-01-05 20:14:00.228 Preview Error: Run() file not local:
'/mythtv/recordings/1005_20090105201400.mpg'
2009-01-05 20:14:00.236 Preview Error: Preview process not ok.
                        fileinfo(/mythtv/recordings/1005_20090105201400.mpg.png)
exists: 0 readable: 0 size: 0
2009-01-05 20:14:00.237 MainServer: Failed to make preview image.

2) I'm getting lots of these pairs in the logs, which I cut out in the log
excerpts above.
2009-01-05 20:14:00.841 MainServer::ANN Monitor
2009-01-05 20:14:00.843 adding: goethe as a client (events: 0)

Anything more I can provide to help track down what's going wrong?


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