[mythtv-users] Directories gone wrong

Mike Holden mythtv at mikeholden.org
Wed Jun 23 13:32:54 UTC 2010


Jason Ward wrote:
> MythTV has "merged" two of my drives
>
> From MythWeb:
>
> MythTV Drive #3:
>     * Directories: MythLivingroom:/mnt/LacieNAS1/MythMedia,
> MythLivingroom:/mnt/LacieNAS2/MythMedia
>
> However, those two items (mnt/LacieNAS1/ and /mnt/LacieNAS2/) are
> two
> physically different drives.
>
> When I first added them to MythTV, in Mythweb they showed as Drive 3
> and
> Drive 4 respectively.
>
> Mythweb also says "Suggested next mythfilldatabase run: 1970-01-01
> 00:00"
>
> Some recordings are failing with no file being created.
>
> I have a recording that I cannot delete (it disapears initally, but
> comes
> back).
>
> My backend log suddendly contains errors like this:
>
> ERROR: Filesystem Info cache is empty, unable to determine what
> Recordings
> to expire
> Error querying recordedfiles for chanid 1070 at Tue Jun 22 17:09:00
> 2010.
> Error deleting recordedseek for chanid 9999 at Tue Jun 8 18:46:29
> 2010.
> Canceled recording (Recorder Failed)      Horrible Histories
> "Prepare to be
> confused by the Egyptian Hieroglyphics song": channel 1070 on cardid
> 1,
> sourceid 1
>
> What has happened?!  I've been playing with 2 new frontends only,
> I've not
> touched the backend for a couple of days...
>
> Reboots don't clear the problems.

You may have crashed or broken tables in your database. You would
need to fix them first. Check the Wiki, or indeed the other current
thread discussing repairing broken databases.
-- 
Mike Holden



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