[mythtv] How to debug "file not found" ?

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Wed Jun 14 15:59:59 UTC 2006


On 06/14/2006 11:36 AM, John P Poet wrote:
> On 6/13/06, John P Poet <jppoet at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Three times in the last five days, I have gone to watch a recording
>> and had the frontend tell me "The file for this recording cannot be
>> found".  Each of the three times, the file in question lived on a
>> slave backend.
>>
>> The frontend log has:
>>
>> 2006-06-13 23:00:23.376 PlaybackBox::play(): Error,
>> myth://192.168.2.51:6543/1011_20060411190000.mpg file not found
>>
>> The file *does* exist.  Mplayer will play it just fine.
>>
>> The frontend used to be able to play this file.  I even adjusted the
>> commercial cut points shortly after the file was recorded, but now it
>> refused to play it.
>>
>> What verbose options do I need to give the backends/frontend to help
>> diagnose this problem?
> Restarting the frontend had no effect.
>
> Restarting the slave backend had no effect.
>
> Restarting the master backend fixed the problem.

How do you have your recordings directories configured (shared 
recordings directory using a network filesystem or separate recordings 
directories local to each backend)?

Mike


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