[mythtv-users] Odd behaviour after recording failed

[Michael T Dean]

On 10/8/2015 9:40 PM, Tom Dexter wrote:
> Wow...I'm running mythtv-0.27.5 on Gentoo and I just had something
> happen that's never occurred for me before caused by a "recorder
> failed" failure.
>
> On rare occasions I have recording fail, possibly reception issues
> etc.  Actually the specific tuner card is my oldest one, and it might
> be going.  In any case, this time, when I noticed that the recording
> showed as 0 bytes (no file was recording) I deleted it.  After than I
> went to the upcoming recordings screen which showed that the recorder
> failed.  From there I did a "restart recording" or whatever the exact
> prompt is.
>
> Now the upcoming records says it's recording on tuner 3, and the
> listings show that it's recording, but it really isn't.  The recoded
> programs doesn't show it at all, and tuner status shows nothing
> recording on tuner 3.  In fact, I can go into live TV and use that
> tuner.
>
> Digging a little deeper, I verified that no recording file is being
> created.  It appears that, possibly because of the delete (which I'm
> fairly sure I've done in the past) the record for that isn't in the
> recorded table either.
>
> What the *hell* is that all about.  I've never had anything like that occur.
>

If you change the Recording Group to Deleted, do you see it?  If so, 
delete it from there.  If not, restart your master backend.

Mike