[mythtv-users] myth no longer working

Jared McIntyre jmcintyre at dfsoftware.com
Sun Feb 10 20:01:51 UTC 2008


>On Feb 10, 2008 1:41 PM, Jared McIntyre <jmcintyre at dfsoftware.com> wrote:
>>  Here is the long story. Starting sometime Wednesday, the drive my
>>  mythtv backend (0.20.2) writes videos to filled up. This caused
>>  mythtv to freak out and fill up my system drive with massive syslog
>>  and messages log files that I had to prune in order to get the system
>>  running again (it would be nice if myth was less repetitive with its
>>  error messages in this case).
>>
>
>Are your mysql tables on the partition that ran out of space?  If they
>are, they very well may have been corrupted when that happened.
>
>If so you may need to restore from a database backup if you have one.
>
>Tom
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Unfortunately, due to myth slamming the log files, both drives ran 
out of space. However, I validated the database against corruption as 
part of trying to bring the system back up, and everything appeared 
to be fine.

Jared


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