[mythtv-users] brief lockup in frontend, then recordings split in half?

[Daryl McDonald]

On Mon, Dec 31, 2018 at 7:29 AM James Abernathy <jfabernathy at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> On 12/31/18 12:19 AM, Stephen Worthington wrote:
> > On Sun, 30 Dec 2018 22:24:54 -0500, you wrote:
> >
> >> So I was recording 2 programs and watching a third.  When the 3rd quit I
> >> setup to record the next program immediately after the 3rd. All of a
> >> sudden the frontend froze for 10-20 seconds and then continued. What I
> >> saw later in the list of recordings was the 2 programs I was recording
> >> now had 2 entries. the 1st file was the first 20 minutes of the programs
> >> and the 2nd was the rest of the program. I'm assuming I lost part of the
> >> programs around the glitch.
> >>
> >> I copied the mythbackend.log around the time of the event and put it in
> >> pastebin. (https://pastebin.com/raw/X9ZXTeEJ)
> >>
> >> the backend is the latest v29.1 and the frontend I was on was a Shield
> >> with pre-30 983.
> >>
> >> Jim A
> > Without looking at the log, that sounds just like mythbackend crashed
> > and restarted.  So take a look at the end of the log for the previous
> > run of mythbackend and see if there is any data on the crash.
>
> I have looked at the log in the pastebin and you can see some strange
> things happening around 8:21PM EST or 0121 UTC. not real sure how to
> interrupt it though. The items marked errors seems to be the system
> expecting something and it's not in the "profile" so it uses something
> else. But my daily logs are full of those for every recording.
>
> I know it's not a power glitch as the backend is on a UPS. My wife was
> not watching mythtv at the time, but was streaming SlingTV.  She didn't
> report any issue that might point to a networking issue.
>
> Other than the missing ~1 minute of TV program just after the glitch and
> before it started recording again, everything is still working good.
>
> My actions that seemed like it caused the event was watching a recording
> a few seconds behind live. It was coming to the end and I could see it
> was running late and would miss the end of the football game. So at a
> commercial near the end, I stopped my viewing and deleted that recording
> and went to the program guide, selected the program after the game and
> recorded it. Then I tried to go back in and watch the new recording to
> see the end of the game.  That's when it crashed, if that's what it did.
>
> I thought that a developer might see something in the log that would
> point to a bug that could be fixed.  This is the first crash I've had
> since switching to mythhdhrrecording external recorder.
>
> Jim A
>
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If a program is running over sched time, I go into upcoming recordings and
edit recording and add minutes beyond end time and save, never experienced
a glitch that way.
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