[mythtv-users] Hard drive full, setup problem?

[John Drescher]

On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 1:11 PM, James Crow <crow.jamesm at gmail.com> wrote:
> I recently began experiencing problems from a new SBE. MBE is running
> Ubuntu 9.10 w/ 0.23 from JYA's repo. SBE is Mythbuntu 10.04 w/ 0.23
> from JYA. MBE has 3 physical drives setup as directories in its
> storage group. SBE has 1 physical drive in its SG. I recently have
> begun to receive these errors in the SBE log:
>
> james at myth-fe-2:~$ tail /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log
>                        eno: No space left on device (28)
> 2010-06-08 13:05:12.643 TFW: safe_write(): funky usleep
> 2010-06-08 13:05:12.653 TFW, Error: safe_write(): File I/O  errcnt: 3
>                        eno: No space left on device (28)
> 2010-06-08 13:05:12.660 TFW, Error: safe_write(): File I/O  errcnt: 1
>                        eno: No space left on device (28)
> 2010-06-08 13:05:12.668 TFW: safe_write(): funky usleep
> 2010-06-08 13:05:12.678 TFW, Error: safe_write(): File I/O  errcnt: 2
>                        eno: No space left on device (28)
> 2010-06-08 13:05:12.703 TFW: safe_write(): funky usleep
> james at myth-fe-2:~$
>
> I also noticed some errors in the system log. I am not sure if one
> preceded the other or if they are related.
>
> james at myth-fe-2:~$ dmesg | tail
> [328124.940425] ivtv0: All encoder MPG stream buffers are full. Dropping data.
> [328124.940434] ivtv0: Cause: the application is not reading fast enough.
> [328125.046544] ivtv0: All encoder MPG stream buffers are full. Dropping data.
> [328125.046554] ivtv0: Cause: the application is not reading fast enough.
> [328125.137805] ivtv0: All encoder MPG stream buffers are full. Dropping data.
> [328125.137815] ivtv0: Cause: the application is not reading fast enough.
> [328125.241226] ivtv0: All encoder MPG stream buffers are full. Dropping data.
> [328125.241236] ivtv0: Cause: the application is not reading fast enough.
> [328125.347262] ivtv0: All encoder MPG stream buffers are full. Dropping data.
> [328125.347271] ivtv0: Cause: the application is not reading fast enough.
> james at myth-fe-2:~$
>
> All my recording rules are set to allow auto expire. Is there some
> other setting I am missing?
>

Never have the operating system / database on the same filesystem as
your recordings.

John