On 8/18/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jeff Bevis</b> <<a href="mailto:digijock223@yahoo.com">digijock223@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Ryan, here is the script info that I used... (You don't need to put it<br>in /etc/rc.d, that was an arbitrary choice of location. )<br></blockquote></div><snip/><br><br><br>The script to restart the backend is all well and good, but only solves part of the problem from my point of view. On my box the backend can be still running and it decides not to lock onto a channel even though signal is strong. In liveTV it just vgives you the option to wait longer, etc. but when it is meant to be recording it just doesn't record anything, creates a 0 byte file which then the frontend is not able to find. Restarting the backend in these cases solves the problem, it will lock on the channel right away, but the cron script won't help, because the backend is technically running.
<br><br>My logs when this happens look something like:<br><br>=======<br>2007-08-17 20:21:38.440 EITScanner: Now looking for EIT data on multiplex of channel 701<br>QDateTime::fromString: Parameter out of range<br>QSocketDevice::writeBlock: Invalid socket
<br>QDateTime::fromString: Parameter out of range<br>QSocketDevice::writeBlock: Invalid socket<br>2007-08-17 20:26:50.015 EITScanner: Now looking for EIT data on multiplex of channel 11<br>QDateTime::fromString: Parameter out of range
<br>QSocketDevice::writeBlock: Invalid socket<br>2007-08-17 20:30:02.928 TVRec(1): Changing from None to RecordingOnly<br>2007-08-17 20:30:02.944 TVRec(1): HW Tuner: 1->1<br>2007-08-17 20:30:02.952 DVBChan(0) Error: Tune(): Setting Frontend tuning parameters failed.
<br> eno: No such device (19)<br>2007-08-17 20:30:02.953 DVBChan(0) Error: SetChannelByString(13): Tuning to frequency.<br>2007-08-17 20:30:02.953 TVRec(1) Error: Failed to set channel to 13. Reverting to kState_None
<br>2007-08-17 20:30:02.954 TVRec(1): Changing from RecordingOnly to None<br>2007-08-17 20:30:02.966 Canceled recording (Recorder Failed): The Daily Show with Jon Stewart: channel 1013 on cardid 1, sourceid 1<br>2007-08-17 20:30:
02.983 scheduler: Canceled recording (Recorder Failed): The Daily Show with Jon Stewart: channel 1013 on cardid 1, sourceid 1<br>2007-08-17 20:30:06.034 Error deleting '/var/lib/mythtv/recordings/1013_20070817203000.mpg' could not open
<br> eno: No such file or directory (2)<br>2007-08-17 20:30:06.043 Delete Error '/var/lib/mythtv/recordings/1013_20070817203000.mpg'<br> eno: No such file or directory (2)
<br>2007-08-17 20:30:10.066 Reschedule requested for id 0.<br>2007-08-17 20:30:10.497 Scheduled 115 items in 0.4 = 0.01 match + 0.42 place<br>2007-08-17 20:30:10.506 scheduler: Scheduled items: Scheduled 115 items in 0.4 =
0.01 match + 0.42 place<br>QDateTime::fromString: Parameter out of range<br>=======<br><br>Any suggestions appreciated! <br><br>-James<br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>James Cummings, Cummings dot James at GMail dot com