[mythtv-users] 0.22-fixes: "Couldn't open file abort.dat"

[Jacob Strandlien]

I've already checked the directory where the transcoded files are
placed on my system, and access rights to that directory seem fine.
Are there other directories involved in transcoding?

-Jacob

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Michael T. Dean
<mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> On 04/22/2010 02:10 PM, Jacob Strandlien wrote:
>>
>> I've had some problems with MythTV recently, and I realized that this
>> was because my hard drive was full. I traced the problem to my
>> mythbackend.log files, which were several gigabytes in size. The weird
>> thing is that the log files are filling with this:
>>
>> 2010-04-21 07:47:28.661 Failed to decode frame.  Position was: 0
>> 2010-04-21 07:47:28.916 Couldn't open file abort.dat
>> 2010-04-21 07:47:29.170 Failed to decode frame.  Position was: 0
>> 2010-04-21 07:47:29.414 Couldn't open file abort.dat
>> 2010-04-21 07:47:29.593 Failed to decode frame.  Position was: 0
>> 2010-04-21 07:47:29.852 Couldn't open file abort.dat
>>
>> I did some research, and this issue appears to normally be associated
>> with commercial flagging problems. However, my commercial flagging
>> jobs all appear to be running normally, and the log fills with this
>> junk even when there are no jobs in the queue and mythcommflag isn't
>> running. To make matters worse, this is difficult to troubleshoot
>> because there is no abort.dat file anywhere on my system. I can see
>> this possibly being a permissions problem with the directory where
>> abort.dat is supposed to be, but I have no clue where that is.
>>
>> Has anyone out there experienced this problem, or can anyone at least
>> tell me where abort.dat is normally found?  I'm running the latest
>> 0.22-fixes release on my Mythbuntu system.
>>
>
> That should be a transcode problem--like a transcoder spinning
> endlessly--not a commercial flagging problem.  Check all your
> transcoder-related directories.
>
> Mike
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