[mythtv-users] Previous recordings have disappeared

[Darby Vicker]

> Did you already look at your mythfrontend log files, as I suggested?
> It's much easier than digging into other things and may well tell you
> what the problem is (especially if you see the lines I mentioned). Or,
> better yet, post a copy of the mythfrontend logs from startup through to
> going into the Watch Recordings screen, and let someone take a
> look--then we can do more than just make guesses.
>
> Without looking at the log files, you're just randomly doing stuff in
> the hope that you might accidentally fix some problem whose cause you
> don't know.
>
> Mike

I tried this tonight.

[root at c6 mythtv]# touch mark
[root at c6 mythtv]# /etc/init.d/mythbackend restart
Stopping mythbackend:                                      [  OK  ]
Starting mythbackend:                                      [  OK  ]
[root at c6 mythtv]#
<Started the frontend and tried to view recordings.  None show up.
Exit frontend>
[root at c6 mythtv]# ls -lt
total 103468
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     21173 Jan 29 21:04
mythlogserver.20190128052231.3146.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     12999 Jan 29 21:04
mythbackend.20190130040244.21812.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     78632 Jan 29 21:02
mythbackend.20190129045421.27556.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root         0 Jan 29 21:02 mark
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root      3838 Jan 29 20:02
mythcommflag.20190130030200.19640.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root      6054 Jan 29 20:01
mythmetadatalookup.20190130030055.19503.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root      3838 Jan 29 19:01
mythcommflag.20190130020150.18433.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root      6062 Jan 29 19:00
mythmetadatalookup.20190130020045.18326.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     15637 Jan 29 11:26
mythfilldatabase.20190129182622.11447.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root      4458 Jan 29 04:00
mythpreviewgen.20190129110013.2261.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root      5982 Jan 29 04:00
mythcommflag.20190129103137.1427.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root      5913 Jan 29 03:30
mythmetadatalookup.20190129103032.1325.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root      4455 Jan 29 03:30
mythpreviewgen.20190129103011.1298.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     64323 Jan 28 21:54
mythbackend.20190128052230.3107.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root      3838 Jan 28 19:01
mythcommflag.20190129020132.24824.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root      6194 Jan 28 19:00
mythmetadatalookup.20190129020027.24697.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root      4523 Jan 28 16:30
mythpreviewgen.20190128233013.21906.log
<cut>
[root at c6 mythtv]# ps aux | grep myth
root      3146  1.0  0.2 1326292 15116 ?       Ssl  Jan27  28:18
/usr/bin/mythlogserver --daemon --verbose general --logpath
/var/log/mythtv --loglevel info --quiet
root     21812  0.8  0.5 2419864 27960 ?       Ssl  21:02   0:01
/usr/bin/mythbackend --enable-dblog --daemon --logpath
/var/log/mythtv/ --pidfile /var/run/mythbackend.pid
root     22063  0.0  0.0 103328   840 pts/1    S+   21:06   0:00 grep myth
[root at c6 mythtv]#

I just noticed that you were suggesting checking the frontend logs -
but I don't have any frontend logs... is that a problem?

The two logs that were written after the restart -
mythlogserver.20190128052231.3146.log and
mythbackend.20190130040244.21812.log - are at
https://pastebin.com/sX29DXU3.

Let me know what else you'd like to see.  I really appreciate the help
with this.

Darby