Still no solution to the below. Other errors in addition to "Canceled recording. Recorder failed" include:<div><br></div><div>Error: Failed to set channel to 241. Reverting to kState_None</div><div><br></div><div>
This error can happen when watching livetv and trying to change channels using my remote. I will also get "excessive retries" errors intermittently.</div><div><br></div><div>As I said below, I had this working flawlessly before early last summer. It has been unreliable since then but still does record a fair amount of shows on each tuner. I wonder if this is specific to Ubuntu's kernel since IVTV is now included in the kernel and ivtv-utils is the only installable component for IVTV (that I now of). I am considering once again switching to Centos which seemed to give me the least amount of problems regarding reliability. Since the post below I have eliminated the theory that one version of Ubuntu was better than the other (reinstalling and upgrading to 9.10). I have checked and rechecked permissions, time between both servers, network and have done much research. I don't see any one else having this problem. I have also wiped the cards and channel sources a few times, carefully readding according to documented steps. I am at a loss. The only thing I can think to try is compiling my own vanilla kernel which I used to do on a regular basis several years ago.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Does anyone out there have additional ideas? I'd love to hear from you.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Bob Gamble <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kiksadiweb@gmail.com">kiksadiweb@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">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" target="_blank">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" target="_blank">directv.pl</a> script from <a href="http://www.pdp8.net/directv/directv.shtml" target="_blank">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 style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse;white-space:pre">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>
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</span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse:collapse;white-space:pre">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>
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</span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse:collapse;white-space:pre">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>
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