[mythtv-users] Mythbuntu-bare-client crashes

[Daryl McDonald]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 5:26 PM, Mark Perkins <perkins1724 at hotmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> > -----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
>
> .....
>
> >>> 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
>
> .....
>
> >       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?
>
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I really appreciate this list and all the help I have received. The link
that you ask about Mark was created by my son way back when I started Myth,
so I could examine and manipulate recordings (totally ignorant of the
elegance of Myth) I would be able to open my file system and in the home
directory see a mythtv file linked from /var/lib/mythtv. I've learned a ton
since then, and said link, now with storage directories enabled created
confusion when I opened media library > watch videos I would see var in
there and clicking it I would see lib, which created a virtual labyrinth.
Now with the link removed /var/lib/mythtv is empty on the SSD and
/media/storage and /media/storage2 my two 1Tb drives accept recordings,
banners etc. and watch videos has videos only in it. In an effort to keep
the noise down on this list I don't always expound upon my own stupidity
once I finally get things understood, but I guess the cat is out of the bag
now! Once again big time kudos to everyone from this hammer wielding
retired industrial maintenance man turned biggest Mythtv fan!   Daryl
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