[mythtv-users] New slave immediately autoexpires recordings

Jason Werpy jwwerpy at gmail.com
Mon Feb 6 04:20:21 UTC 2006


On 2/5/06, Steve Fallows <sgfallows at ieee.org> wrote:
>
> I have had a single box system working well for about a year. I just setup
> a
> slave backend on another machine (Hardware below). Both are KnoppMyth
> R5A15.
>
> After some fiddling and learning about how mythtv-setup handles the
> capture
> cards and the database, I now have both encoders showing up in the system
> status. I have setup no NFS shares so I assume each machine will store its
> recordings locally and stream them when played.
>
> I was able to schedule two recordings simultaneously. After they started,
> both were shown as in progress on MythWeb. However, after they finished
> the
> one on the slave was gone. There were no other recordings on the slave.
>
> The marked lines in this snippet of the slave backend log, imply that the
> recording was autoexpired immediately upon finishing:
>
> [list]2006-01-14 15:37:11.799 MainServer::HandleAnnounce FileTransfer
> 2006-01-14 15:37:11.803 adding: mythtv as a remote file transfer
> 2006-01-14 15:37:11.823 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
> 2006-01-14 15:37:11.825 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0)
> 2006-01-14 15:44:11.122 autoexpire: Expired Program
> <<<<<<<<<<< This seems to be the expiration of
> 2006-01-14 15:44:11.235 Finished recording Fox NFL Pregame on channel:
> 1013
> <<<<<<<<<<< this
> 2006-01-14 15:44:11.274 scheduler: Finished recording
> 2006-01-14 15:44:11.335 Changing from RecordingOnly to None
> 2006-01-14 15:54:11.243 mythbackend: Last message repeated 3 times
> 2006-01-14 15:54:11.267 mythbackend: Autoexpire Recording
> 2006-01-14 15:54:11.269 ERROR when trying to autoexpire files.  No
> recordings allowed to expire.[/list]
>
> I guess I have a misconfiguration of some kind on the slave. (O some
> misunderstanding of how slaves work.) The myth partition is only 4% used.
> Should a slave even do autoexpire?
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Master Backend:
> Tyan S1590S Trinity 100AT, AMD K6-2 500MHz, VIA MVP chipset
> PVR 350, 160 MB RAM, 160 GB WD HD
> KnoppMyth R4V5 -> R5A15
>
> Slave Backend:
> Dell Dimension 8100, 1.3GHz
> WinTV Card, 768MB, 120 GB HD
> KnoppMyth R5A15
>
>
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I noticed some strange messages about autoexpire on my backend earlier this
week.  After investigating I found that the nfs link to my recordings
diretory on the master server was gone.  The backend must have seen this as
a freespace violation and tried to autoexpire recordings.  I don't know, but
I'd bet if this were the  case the recordings are just gone from the
database but still on the disk.  I don't know because I have nothing set to
allow for autoexpire so my slave backend  was just throwing messages about
not finding things to autoexpire.  (I had a bad experinece with autoexpire a
while ago and turned it off everywhere).

Hope that helps.
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