[mythtv-users] Hmmmm

[sharifah ummu kulthum]

On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 10:51 PM, Jason Ward <jasonfward at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 2 July 2010 15:31, sharifah ummu kulthum <kulthum91 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 10:11 PM, Jason Ward <jasonfward at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> 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?
>>>>>
>>>>> Is it because Im running the udates?
>>>>>
>>>>> 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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>>> It could be. Did you click 'update' whenever you see any updates? You can
>> check which kernel you used before this problem occurred. Just a suggestion
>> though.
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>> Once or twice a week, updates seem to come through every day that I check,
> but I only run it when MythTV isn't doing and isn't going to be doing
> anything in the next 30 mins or so.
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> kernel updates does affect MythTV. even though you're not running it. But
as far as I know, it affects the hardware in a way. Couldn't really explain
your problem.

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