[mythtv-users] mythbackend hanging with busy disk

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Jeffrey,

Wednesday, April 6, 2016, 9:48:15 PM, you wrote:

> Hi Hika,

> Thanks for taking the time to reply.

> On 6 April 2016 at 20:05, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I don't know where from you get "busy disk", but that would suggest to

> I mean that the LED indicating HD access is permanently lit. Whilst
> recording, it normally pulses every couple of seconds.

>> me to check your disk smart etc. status. Also In the log fragment you

> Thanks for the suggestion. I just installed smartctl. It returns:

> SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

>> give I see only one error and that seems to concern the driver:
>> "Getting Frontend uncorrected block count failed.#012#011#011#011eno:
>> Operation not supported (95)"

> I also get this during successful recordings.

>> Maybe you should check your cabling (and/or power supply). Maybe what
>> it sees as encryption is data-corruption.

> That is an interesting idea. It is in the middle of a successful
> recording at the moment, and I am seeing several of these (for a
> non-encrypted channel):

> Apr  6 21:04:27 pan mythbackend: mythbackend[2136]: I DVBRead
> mpeg/mpegstreamdata.cpp:1979 (ProcessEncryptedPacket)
> MPEGStream[9](0x7f05e016
> c2a8): PID 0xa0 status: Unknown

> Looking back through the logs, these are in most recordings, in pairs
> and threes, right back to when my logs start in July.

> The busy disk problem has only been going on for a couple of months,
> so I'm guessing that these encryption messages are a red herring.

> Regards

> Jeff
> _______________________________________________

Two other things. Check your other logs. The hang could be outside
myth as indicated by your inability to connect over ssh. This could
explain the repetition of the shutdown messages as it could block this
too. 
Second check the database, is it maybe running out of space or inodes?

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