[mythtv-users] PVR-150s failing to record

[Anthony Zawacki]

Nick Rout wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 6:50 AM, Anthony Zawacki <azmail at thezawackis.com> wrote:
>> Robin Gilks wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I've recently upgraded my backend from CentOS 5 (standard kernel)/
>>>> MythTV .19 to CentOS 6 (standard kernel)/ MythTV 24.1-fixes
>>>> (v0.24.1-78-g8b9e5ce) after having MythTV running successfully for
>>>> probably close to 5 years.  I have a headless master backend and two
>>>> frontends.
>>>>
> I have seen some people talk about replacing the capacitors on these
> boards, maybe there is a hardware problem? Don't discount it.
> 
> In the meantime, although a windowsish solution, how about rebooting
> from a cron script every couple of days, at some time in the middle of
> the night when the system is not usually busy recording?
> 

While it is possible that something just happened to the hardware, the 
reason I suspect this is not the case is that everything worked 
perfectly for 4+ years and then I had a 2 drive failure on my RAID 5 
recording array.  So rather than rebuilding with CentOS 5, I went with 
CentOS 6.  Now the problem occurs after 2-3 days to both PVR-150s nearly 
simultaneously.  I suspect if I were willing to accept the downtime, I 
could rebuild the system with CentOS 5 and everything would just work.

Now, I had thought of making a script that detected a failed recording 
and reboot the machine.  But your suggestion is obviously much better as 
if I create a script to wait until mythbackend isn't going to record 
anything in the next 10 minutes, then reboot.  Then set the script to 
run every night, it is a reasonable work around.  I'm not sure where the 
problem is to know who to open a bug against.  Any pointers to 
troubleshooting this type of problem?  I'd rather get whatever the issue 
is fixed in CentOS 6 rather than rolling back to CentOS 5 one weekend 
when I can afford some downtime.

Thanks
Anthony