[mythtv-users] Upcoming scheduled recordings silently died yesterday afternoon

Joseph A. Caputo jcaputo1 at comcast.net
Fri Oct 7 16:53:24 UTC 2005


On Friday 07 October 2005 12:32, Nick wrote:
> Quite worrying (and annoying when I went to watch last night's Horizon
> and this afternoon's Working Lunch) - it seems that recording on the
> backend simply stopped.
> 
> The list of upcoming recordings was accurate when checked and even
> contained programs this afternoon listed as "Will be recorded" when
> they should have been... Time on the backend  is correct and synced
> using ntp.
> 
> The database showed no errors on inspection, and when I restarted the
> BE, those programs which should have been recording started to record.
> Before restarting, I checked to see if there were problems with the
> capture card, but LiveTV worked on both cards with no problems.
> 
> There was no output in either mythbackend.log or /var/log/messages
> either, so perhaps I'll need to run with more verbose logging for
> recordings for a while.
> 
> Has anyone seen this behaviour?

Disk full, maybe?  Auto-expire was broken for a while in SVN, a fix was 
put in this morning.

-JAC


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