[mythtv] Master: scheduled recordings fail to start

[John Pilkington]

On 23/02/2019 13:08, Mike Bibbings wrote:
> On 23/02/2019 11:13, John Pilkington wrote:
>> On Thursday 21 I installed a local build of
>>
>> mythtv-31.Pre.101.g5439651a2b-100.el7.x86_64.rpm, upgrading from
>> mythtv-31.Pre.61.ga99d3e6d78-100.el7.x86_64.rpm
>>
>> On Friday 22 I upgraded my kernel from 4.4.174.1.el7.elrepo.x86_64 to 
>> 4.4.175.1
>>
>> Later on Friday I found that scheduled recordings had not started. 
>> Attempts to restart any still being broadcast failed, but were still 
>> marked as 'will record'
>>
>> 'Previously recorded' showed them as 'missed', and also showed several 
>> recordings for Friday 1  *Mar* 2019 as 'missed'  I deleted the shows 
>> marked in red from that screen, after which current shows could be 
>> restarted from the EPG.  Scheduling still failed.
>>
>> I have raised a flag at elrepo, because it looked as if reverting to 
>> 4.4.174 had worked, but this morning scheduled shows were missing.
>>
>> I have now downgraded to the previous ga99d3e build of Myth and at 
>> present it seems ok.
>>
>> I see there have been more 'initialisation' commits since my problem 
>> build, and maybe they have fixed it.  I have  e83b364 (current head) 
>> on the fc28 box but have not yet done appropriate tests on that.
>>
>> John P
> 
> 
> Noticed same problem after some  recordings were not made.
> 
> I am also seeing missed (e.g. Record All +0 Missed) for some scheduled 
> recordings in Upcoming Recordings screen for future date/time at 
> v31-Pre-116-ge83b364931-dirty, which is current master (22 February 2019).
> 
> Reason is "This showing was not recorded because the master backend was 
> not running"
> 
> Built from source on Xubuntu 18.04.2, (4.18 HWE series kernel)
> 
> Reverting to v31-Pre-61-ga99d3e6d78 did NOT resolve it for me, even 
> after deleting a Recording rule. Program Guide still shows a recording 
> status, but attempting to edit Recording rule results in Recording rule 
> does not exist.
> 
> 
> 
> Mike
> 

I reverted the fc28 build to 31pre65-6b402ca5 and a schedule created a 
few minutes before start-of-show is working.  If a recording has already 
been marked as failing in some way I think you have to delete it in 
Previously Recorded too.

John