[mythtv-users] Have to start shows twice -- database problem???

[Michael Watson]

On 26/02/2013 4:44 PM, Allen Edwards wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 9:19 PM, Michael Watson 
> <michael at thewatsonfamily.id.au <mailto:michael at thewatsonfamily.id.au>> 
> wrote:
>
>     On 25/02/2013 8:36 PM, John Veness wrote:
>
>         On 24/02/2013 19:47, Allen Edwards wrote:
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>             I am running 0.21 and following the advice of if it ain't
>             broke, don't
>             fix it.  But I have a very small "broke" I would like to
>             fix. This
>             problem started probably about a year ago.  I had many
>             years with no
>             issues at all.  Not always, but often when I start a
>             program I get a
>             long delay and then back to the menu and I have to start
>             the show again,
>             which then starts instantly.  Also, and more annoying, if
>             I stop a show
>             half way through and restart it, it often does the same
>             thing and I lose
>             my break point so have to manually skip to where I left off.
>
>
>         I had a similar problem to that a few years ago, and if I
>         remember correctly I found that degragmenting my drives
>         helped. I'm not sure if it was defragmenting the video storage
>         drive or the database drive that particularly helped.
>
>     I'm not sure even a severely fragmented drive would cause this
>     sort of delay.
>
>     How much memory does the system have?  How much swap space is the
>     system using?
>     What sort of load is the system under when you start to watch a
>     program?
>
>     I would start by opening a terminal window (or ssh into it from
>     another machine), start 'top' and watch what happens to the system
>     load (and what process's are creating that load) when you start a
>     program.
>
>     Is there anything getting logged by syslog that might shed any
>     light.  "cat /var/log/messages | grep sda" might shed some light
>     on the problem.  (If its a drive starting to turn up its toes)
>
>     Have you looked if the myth logs show any hints?  (backend and
>     frontend logs)
>
>     Maybe your CPU fan is just clogged with dust, so CPU is not
>     getting cooled properly, causing the system to run slow.
>
>     Many things to look at before you upgrade, and find yourself with
>     the same problem (or worse)
>
>
>     Regards
>     Michael
>
> CPU fan cleaned not long ago, and the system was shutting down before 
> I cleaned it so it really can be a problem.
>
> But back to the problem, it isn't delay or slow speed, it is bad 
> behavior.  The time is clearly being used by myth doing something it 
> should not be doing.  To repeat.  I can restart a show where I have 
> the option of "play" or "play from" and hit "play from" and the thing 
> goes and does whatever it is doing and goes back to the menu by itself 
> and "play from" is no longer an option.  I then have to hit play and 
> fast forward to where I had left off.  Myth has done something it 
> should not have done, it isn't that it is slow.  It has gone and done 
> a bunch of stuff and lost its placemark in the process.
>
> Allen
>
Can you provide Backend and Frontend logs from when it has exhibited 
this behavior.