[mythtv-users] Failed recordings

Jonathan Larson jtlarson at u.washington.edu
Tue Oct 5 14:39:33 UTC 2010



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From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Malcolm Parsons
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Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Failed recordings

On 4 October 2010 22:27, Jonathan Larson <jtlarson at u.washington.edu> wrote:

> When I look at the logs for a working recording, MythTV first assigns 
> a file handle and goes through a few other internal processes before 
> calling /dev/video, yet I just had another recording fail this 
> morning, and it doesn't do any of these steps--it just stops at "StartingRecording":

In ticket 8606 (http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/8606) I was seeing the recording thread fail to start recording because it was waiting for a mutex that was held by another thread.

Can you attach a debugger to see what is happening?

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Malcolm, 

I'm new to the whole debugging routine, but I've done some looking into this (http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Debugging#Debugging_package-based_installs). I use the Debian multimedia pakages: http://debian-multimedia.org/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/ but i don't see any debug-related packages in that repo, so I think that I would need to compile from source and re-install mythtv in order to enable debugging--correct?

In the mean time, I've upped the logging level to "most" to see if I can capture any other useful information when it happens again.

Jon


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