[mythtv-users] Recording Functionality Breaks Regularly Since Upgrading to 0.25

Nick Rout nick.rout at gmail.com
Thu Jun 7 21:21:51 UTC 2012


On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 7:30 AM, Brian and Lisa <brian.n.lisa at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Greetings (and apologies for original message which included html, I hope
> this is better),
>
>
> Ever since upgrading to 0.25 from 0.24 my system spontaneously fails to make
> recordings.
>
> Generally 12 hours or so after the last reboot, after having made scheduled
> recordings normally in the interim, the system will attempt to make
> scheduled TV recording(s) but fail.  After a reboot, the system will resume
> recording scheduled programs but once the backend breaks, it will remain
> broken until the host is reboot (stopping/restarting the backend makes no
> difference).  The recordings menu (Watch Recording-->All Programs) will
> display normal menu entries for all recordings which were attempted
> (successful or not), but no HDD recording will have been made once the
> backend breaks and of course, no thumbnail image will be evident in the
> menu.  Aside from the regular breaks in recording capability, the system
> performs more or less identically to when it was running 0.24.
>
> Whether the recording functions are working or not, there is no issue with
> playback of successful recordings (suggesting this is not a harddrive I/O
> issue).
>
>
> I followed Mike's advice to another user with a similar issue
> (http://www.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2012-May/333505.html):"'Delete
> all capture cards' (not 'Delete all capture cards on <hostname>'), then
> re-create cards and re-connect inputs" but this made no difference.  I've
> also physically reseated my digitizer card after cleaning the contacts.
>
> Portions of my backend.log during a failure are attached.

Sorry if I missed it, but what capture device?


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