[mythtv-users] MythTV deciding to stop recording with Program "not found in PAT" error

[Brett Randall]

Hi all

I've been running MythTV (under Mythbuntu 12.04.1 LTS) as my media centre
for the last year and, other than the occasional hiccup, it's been great
and my family has loved it. I originally installed 0.24 but a few months
ago upgraded to 0.25. It remained stable after doing so.

However, this last couple of weeks, it has lost the plot. In typical Myth
fashion, the more I try to fix it with software updates, firmware changes,
etc, the worse it gets. The version I'm currently running (from a Ubuntu
package) is 0.25.0+fixes.20120410.1f5962a-0ubuntu1.

The last few days, as soon as a particular program comes on ("Finley the
Fire Engine" - NO it is not for me ;-) ), Myth freaks out with a PAT error
and no longer records anything until I restart the backend process
(normally having to use "kill -9" to stop it). The exact log entries are:

Nov 23 06:25:26 myth mythbackend[11231]: I TVRecEvent tv_rec.cpp:1536
(HandlePendingRecordings) TVRec(9): ASK_RECORDING 9 17 0 0
Nov 23 06:25:27 myth mythbackend[11231]: I TVRecEvent tv_rec.cpp:1536
(HandlePendingRecordings) TVRec(10): ASK_RECORDING 10 17 0 0
Nov 23 06:25:47 myth mythbackend[11231]: I TVRecEvent tv_rec.cpp:1029
(HandleStateChange) TVRec(10): Changing from None to RecordingOnly
Nov 23 06:25:47 myth mythbackend[11231]: I TVRecEvent mythdbcon.cpp:395
(PurgeIdleConnections) New DB connection, total: 17
Nov 23 06:25:47 myth mythbackend[11231]: I TVRecEvent tv_rec.cpp:3495
(TuningCheckForHWChange) TVRec(10): HW Tuner: 10->10
Nov 23 06:25:47 myth mythbackend[11231]: N Scheduler autoexpire.cpp:263
(CalcParams) AutoExpire: CalcParams(): Max required Free Space: 52.0 GB
w/freq: 14 min
Nov 23 06:25:47 myth mythbackend[11231]: I Scheduler scheduler.cpp:2514
(HandleRecordingStatusChange) Tuning recording: "Finley The Fire Engine":
channel 1022 on cardid 10, sourceid 1
Nov 23 06:25:48 myth mythbackend[11231]: E DVBRead dtvsignalmonitor.cpp:321
(HandlePAT) DTVSM(/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0): Program #2370 not found in
PAT!#012Program Association Section#012 PSIP tableID(0x0) length(41)
extension(0x221)#012      version(16) current(1) section(0)
last_section(0)#012      tsid(545) programCount(8)#012  program number
0 has PID 0x0010#012  program number   544 has PID 0x0102#012  program
number   545 has PID 0x0100#012  program number   546 has PID 0x0101#012
program number   547 has PID 0x0103#012  program number   548 has PID
0x0106#012  program number   550 has PID 0x0104#012  program number   551
has PID 0x0105
Nov 23 06:25:48 myth mythbackend[11231]: I CoreContext scheduler.cpp:637
(UpdateRecStatus) Updating status for "Finley The Fire Engine" on cardid 10
(Tuning => Recording)
Nov 23 06:25:48 myth mythbackend[11231]: I TVRecEvent tv_rec.cpp:3989
(TuningNewRecorder) TVRec(10): rec->GetPathname():
'/mnt/media/recordings/1022_20121123062600.mpg'
Nov 23 06:26:43 myth mythbackend[11231]: I HouseKeeping housekeeper.cpp:225
(RunHouseKeeping) Running housekeeping thread
Nov 23 06:27:30 myth mythbackend[11231]: N Expire autoexpire.cpp:263
(CalcParams) AutoExpire: CalcParams(): Max required Free Space: 52.0 GB
w/freq: 14 min
Nov 23 06:27:32 myth mythbackend[11231]: I Scheduler scheduler.cpp:2033
(HandleReschedule) Reschedule requested for id -1.
Nov 23 06:27:33 myth mythbackend[11231]: I Scheduler scheduler.cpp:2093
(HandleReschedule) Scheduled 167 items in 1.3 = 0.25 match + 1.01 place
Nov 23 06:30:02 myth mythbackend[11231]: I ProcessRequest
mainserver.cpp:1360 (HandleAnnounce) MainServer::ANN Monitor
Nov 23 06:30:02 myth mythbackend[11231]: I ProcessRequest
mainserver.cpp:1362 (HandleAnnounce) adding: myth as a client (events: 0)
Nov 23 06:30:02 myth mythbackend[11231]: E ProcessRequest
programinfo.cpp:2278 (GetPlaybackURL) ProgramInfo(1022_20121117143500.mpg):
GetPlaybackURL: '1022_20121117143500.mpg' should be local, but it can not
be found.
Nov 23 06:30:02 myth mythbackend[11231]: E ProcessRequest
programinfo.cpp:2278 (GetPlaybackURL) ProgramInfo(1001_20120730201059.mpg):
GetPlaybackURL: '1001_20120730201059.mpg' should be local, but it can not
be found.
Nov 23 06:30:02 myth mythbackend[11231]: E ProcessRequest
programinfo.cpp:2278 (GetPlaybackURL) ProgramInfo(1022_20120311063718.mpg):
GetPlaybackURL: '1022_20120311063718.mpg' should be local, but it can not
be found.