[mythtv-users] Fwd: MythTV 0.26 recordings exit with error 140

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Sun Nov 25 21:45:56 UTC 2012


On 11/25/2012 11:38 AM, Al Heynneman wrote:
> *Anybody? Please, ideas?*
>
> If was running 0.25 fine.
>
> I upgraded to 0.26 and it was running fine.
>
> I'm running on Ubuntu quantal, 12.10.
>
> Then, all of a sudden, I started having issues with scheduled recordings
> failing.
>
> First thing that I noticed is that it seems to be actually recording,
> but if I flip to watch recordings, the initial/beginning part no longer
> shows up in the list of recorded/recording titles. In the past, I could
> watch a recording in process, and that way, only use one tuner, instead
> of two, and save some bandwidth.
>
> Second I noticed that the past recording list showed that the failed
> scheduled recording had been aborted. Not by me. This has happened a
> number of times now, and it doesn't seem to be specific to any channel.
> Apparently mythcommflag is exiting with error 140?
>
> So, I disabled commercial removal by disabling mythcommflag in the
> mythtv backend, thinking that if that's where it was failing, I'd live
> with the stink'in commercials, as long as I got the recordings. That
> didn't solve my problem either. Somehow it's failing during the
> recording process, and then mythcommflag is barfing on the
> bad/corrupted/whatever file that it's trying to process.
>
> Any ideas anybody?
>

We'll almost definitely need some backend logs to even guess.

Mike


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