[mythtv-users] Hmmmm

[Jason Ward]

On 2 July 2010 15:03, sharifah ummu kulthum <kulthum91 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 9:59 PM, Jason Ward <jasonfward at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Why is it that random things seem to happen to my MythTV system?
>>
>> Things stop working, frontends that could connect now can't.  My bankend
>> hangs once in every while (the machine is fine, I can login to it etc, but
>> the mythtv backend is unresponsive) I sometimes get blank recordings (no
>> sound, no picture, just an hour of black silence) sometimes I get zero byte
>> recordings, my backend at one stage suddenly for no reason I could see got
>> very confused about it directories, and now today, again for no apparent
>> reason, it suddenly can't delete live TV recordings.
>>
>> 3      36327      mythbackend      4      0      2010-07-02 14:45:50
>> MythLivingroom      Delete Recording      File
>> /var/lib/mythtv/livetv/1006_20100618220723.mpg for chanid 1006 at Fri Jun 18
>> 22:07:23 2010 could not be deleted.
>> 4     36326     mythbackend     4     0     2010-07-02 14:45:42
>> MythLivingroom     Delete Recording     File
>> /var/lib/mythtv/livetv/1007_20100618210000.mpg for chanid 1007 at Fri Jun 18
>> 21:00:00 2010 could not be deleted.
>> 5     36325     mythbackend     4     0     2010-07-02 14:45:39
>> MythLivingroom     Delete Recording     File
>> /var/lib/mythtv/livetv/1007_20100618200000.mpg for chanid 1007 at Fri Jun 18
>> 20:00:00 2010 could not be deleted.
>> 6     36324     mythbackend     4     0     2010-07-02 14:45:36
>> MythLivingroom     Delete Recording     File
>> /var/lib/mythtv/livetv/1002_20100618190947.mpg for chanid 1002 at Fri Jun 18
>> 19:09:47 2010 could not be deleted.
>> 7     36323     mythbackend     4     0     2010-07-02 14:45:32
>> MythLivingroom     Delete Recording     File
>> /var/lib/mythtv/livetv/1007_20100618192202.mpg for chanid 1007 at Fri Jun 18
>> 19:22:02 2010 could not be deleted.
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>> Why has this happened?  How do it happen?  Why do I keep getting these
>> random strange events on a system I'm doing nothing on except the basic
>> MythTV things of recording and playback and running the Ubuntu and Mythbuntu
>> updates on?
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>> Is it because Im running the udates?
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>> Despite what I've read here would I be better of just leaving the
>> installation alone and only updating say once a year?
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> Could it be that because you update the kernel?
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>> I don't know.  Do I?  I update what I believe I am supposed to update.
 Ubuntu updates and Mythbuntu.  This is the crux of one of my question, are
these updates the source of my problems?
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