<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 5:26 PM, Mark Perkins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:perkins1724@hotmail.com" target="_blank">perkins1724@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
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> -----Original Message-----<br>
> From: mythtv-users [mailto:<a href="mailto:mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org">mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org</a>] On Behalf<br>
> Of Daryl McDonald<br>
> Sent: Wednesday, 12 November 2014 12:11 AM<br>
> To: Discussion about MythTV<br>
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Mythbuntu-bare-client crashes<br>
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>>> occasionally during use of Myth. Could this be related to<br>
>>> 'sudo rm' ing a<br>
>>> link that existed between /var/lib/mythtv and<br>
>>> /media/storage/mythtv or is<br>
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> Maybe I'm my own worst enemy, recently I installed Dropbox and<br>
> chose its location in one of my storage drives, it worked OK for a few days,<br>
> but when I did a 'sudo rm /var/lib/mythtv' trying to remove only a link<br>
> between /varlib/mythtv and /media/storage/mythtv, the entire directory<br>
> was removed, and that's when the "problem detected" warnings started<br>
> showing up. So I have recreated the directory changed ownership and<br>
> permissions, but something must still be lacking:<br>
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> daryl@daryl-A780L3C:~$ ls -al /var/lib/mythtv<br>
> total 48<br>
> drwxrwxr-x 12 mythtv mythtv 4096 Nov 9 15:16 .<br>
> drwxr-xr-x 74 root root 4096 Nov 9 09:05 ..<br>
> drwxrwsr-x 2 mythtv mythtv 4096 Nov 8 02:11 banners<br>
> drwxrwsr-x 2 mythtv mythtv 4096 Nov 8 02:11 coverart<br>
> drwxrwsr-x 2 mythtv mythtv 4096 Nov 8 02:11 db_backups<br>
> drwxrwsr-x 2 mythtv mythtv 4096 Nov 8 02:11 fanart<br>
> drwxrwsr-x 2 mythtv mythtv 4096 Nov 8 02:11 livetv<br>
> drwxrwsr-x 2 mythtv mythtv 4096 Nov 8 02:11 recordings<br>
> drwxrwsr-x 2 mythtv mythtv 4096 Nov 8 02:11 screenshots<br>
> drwxrwsr-x 2 mythtv mythtv 4096 Nov 10 11:52 streaming<br>
> drwxrwsr-x 2 mythtv mythtv 4096 Nov 10 17:49 trailers<br>
> drwxrwsr-x 2 mythtv mythtv 4096 Nov 8 02:11 videos<br>
> daryl@daryl-A780L3C:~$<br>
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> daryl@daryl-A780L3C:~$ ls -al /var/lib<br>
> total 304<br>
> drwxrwxr-x 12 mythtv mythtv 4096 Nov 9 15:16 mythtv<br>
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> daryl@daryl-A780L3C:~$ ls -al /media/storage/<br>
> total 36<br>
> drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Nov 5 15:32 .<br>
> drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Oct 16 12:04 ..<br>
> drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 Nov 2 09:26 3E5A-1163<br>
> drwx------ 3 daryl daryl 4096 Nov 10 18:05 Dropbox<br>
> drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Jun 11 2013 lost+found<br>
> drwxrwxr-x 15 mythtv mythtv 4096 Oct 10 18:00 mythtv<br>
> daryl@daryl-A780L3C:~$<br>
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</div></div>Daryl, glad to hear you got it sorted. However I must admit that symlink you mentioned earlier has been concerning me a little over the last few days. It's probably too late to know now but what exactly was that symlink? Are your storage folders where you expect them to be - it seems to me your /media/storage folder is more or less empty (where-as I tend to expect based on the folder name that that would be where your recordings would be and is probably on a large capacity drive). Whereas /var/lib/mythtv has all the livetv / recordings / artwork folders and is potentially on a smaller capacity SSD (if I remember the history of some of your posts correctly) which may be prone to filling up quickly and causing other system issues particularly if lots of recordings go into it over a short period of time? Or maybe I'm completely wrong.<br>
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Just thought it might be worth asking the question as to whether that folder structure was what you were intending?<br>
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