I have been troubleshooting this for a couple months.<div><br></div><div>Setup:</div><div><br></div><div>Ubuntu 8.04 with a master/slave backend mythtv server. These also act as frontends.</div><div><br></div><div>Two hauppauge pvr350s.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Serial->USB converters similar to this setup...<a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Controlling_DirectTV_D11_via_USB#The_DirecTV_H21_Satellite_STB">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Controlling_DirectTV_D11_via_USB#The_DirecTV_H21_Satellite_STB</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>I use NTSC and I don't scan for channels during setup as I live in Alaska.</div><div><br></div><div>I use a shared NFS share that resides on the master backend.</div><div><br></div><div>This setup has worked flawlessly in the past, save for a problem with my Directv receivers which have since been updated to H21 models. I am using a the latest <a href="http://directv.pl">directv.pl</a> script from <a href="http://www.pdp8.net/directv/directv.shtml">http://www.pdp8.net/directv/directv.shtml</a>.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I have recorded many gigabytes worth of shows. My problem is I get the error "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; white-space: pre; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">canceled recording (Recorder Failed)" from my backend log intermittently. I have tried deleting all tuner cards and deleting video sources several times, being very careful to start from a clean configuration. I've looked at several posts where this solved the similar problems. When doing this, I am careful to not go to the channel editor until I mythfilldatabase has been run at least once.</span></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; white-space: pre; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><br>
</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; white-space: pre; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;">Yet I still get failed recordings. There is no consistent failure (i.e. a program will fail one time, then succeed another). I have been using manage recordings to get rid of the failures regularly. One thing I haven't tried is uninstalling all the mythtv software and reinstalling.</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; white-space: pre; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><br>
</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; white-space: pre; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;">I wonder if there might be a database setting causing this. I would be bummed to have to wipe out the database and start cleanly, but that may be what I need to do. Before wiping out and maybe upgrading to the latest mythbuntu I wanted to see if anyone had other ideas. I have been using mythtv for a couple years and have been happy with its stability until recently. Thank you to the developers and to anyone that might help solve this issue.</span></font></div>