[mythtv-users] Mythbuntu-bare-client crashes

[Mark Perkins]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf
> Of Daryl McDonald
> Sent: Wednesday, 12 November 2014 12:11 AM
> To: Discussion about MythTV
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Mythbuntu-bare-client crashes

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>>> occasionally during use of Myth. Could this be related to
>>> 'sudo rm' ing a
>>> link that existed between /var/lib/mythtv and
>>> /media/storage/mythtv or is

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> 	Maybe I'm my own worst enemy, recently I installed Dropbox and
> chose its location in one of my storage drives, it worked OK for a few days,
> but  when I did a 'sudo rm /var/lib/mythtv' trying to remove only a link
> between /varlib/mythtv and /media/storage/mythtv, the entire directory
> was removed, and that's when the "problem detected" warnings started
> showing up. So I have recreated the directory changed ownership and
> permissions, but something must still be lacking:
> 
> 	daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ ls -al /var/lib/mythtv
> 	total 48
> 	drwxrwxr-x 12 mythtv mythtv 4096 Nov  9 15:16 .
> 	drwxr-xr-x 74 root   root   4096 Nov  9 09:05 ..
> 	drwxrwsr-x  2 mythtv mythtv 4096 Nov  8 02:11 banners
> 	drwxrwsr-x  2 mythtv mythtv 4096 Nov  8 02:11 coverart
> 	drwxrwsr-x  2 mythtv mythtv 4096 Nov  8 02:11 db_backups
> 	drwxrwsr-x  2 mythtv mythtv 4096 Nov  8 02:11 fanart
> 	drwxrwsr-x  2 mythtv mythtv 4096 Nov  8 02:11 livetv
> 	drwxrwsr-x  2 mythtv mythtv 4096 Nov  8 02:11 recordings
> 	drwxrwsr-x  2 mythtv mythtv 4096 Nov  8 02:11 screenshots
> 	drwxrwsr-x  2 mythtv mythtv 4096 Nov 10 11:52 streaming
> 	drwxrwsr-x  2 mythtv mythtv 4096 Nov 10 17:49 trailers
> 	drwxrwsr-x  2 mythtv mythtv 4096 Nov  8 02:11 videos
> 	daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$
> 
> 	daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ ls -al /var/lib
> 	total 304
> 	drwxrwxr-x 12 mythtv        mythtv         4096 Nov  9 15:16 mythtv
> 
> 
> 	daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ ls -al /media/storage/
> 	total 36
> 	drwxr-xr-x  6 root   root    4096 Nov  5 15:32 .
> 	drwxr-xr-x  5 root   root    4096 Oct 16 12:04 ..
> 	drwxr-xr-x 23 root   root    4096 Nov  2 09:26 3E5A-1163
> 	drwx------  3 daryl  daryl   4096 Nov 10 18:05 Dropbox
> 	drwx------  2 root   root   16384 Jun 11  2013 lost+found
> 	drwxrwxr-x 15 mythtv mythtv  4096 Oct 10 18:00 mythtv
> 	daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$
> 

Daryl, glad to hear you got it sorted. However I must admit that symlink you mentioned earlier has been concerning me a little over the last few days. It's probably too late to know now but what exactly was that symlink? Are your storage folders where you expect them to be - it seems to me your /media/storage folder is more or less empty (where-as I tend to expect based on the folder name that that would be where your recordings would be and is probably on a large capacity drive). Whereas /var/lib/mythtv has all the livetv / recordings / artwork folders and is potentially on a smaller capacity SSD (if I remember the history of some of your posts correctly) which may be prone to filling up quickly and causing other system issues particularly if lots of recordings go into it over a short period of time? Or maybe I'm completely wrong.

Just thought it might be worth asking the question as to whether that folder structure was what you were intending?